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Women and Girls Rising: “Gender equality and economic growth: a win-win agenda? in Progress and resistance around the world (Routledge) edited by Ellen Chesler and Terry McGovern
Review ‘It is essential that we create a new normal―in our homes, in our nations, and in this United States―and that is what the dedicated and talented women and men whose voices are represented...
Life choices, life chances: exploring work and worklessness among Somali and Bangladeshi women in Tower Hamlets
Large numbers of the population in Tower Hamlets are not in work, and have not been in work for prolonged periods of time. This workless population is likely to belong to the poorest...
Women’s economic empowerment and inclusive growth: labour markets and enterprise development
The paper has a number of aims. First it will examine how empowerment has been conceptualised in the field of gender and development as well as the emergence of an explicit concern with women’s...
The David Morrison Lecture 2012 Microfinance and Social Mobilisation: Alternative Models of Social Change Professor Naila Kabeer Thursday, October 4, 2012 7:30 p.m. Market Hall, Peterborough
Microfinance and Social Mobilisation: Alternative Models of Social Change Professor Naila Kabeer Thursday, October 4, 2012 7:30 p.m. Market Hall, Peterborough The density of associational life in a society is considered to contribute to...
Even girls can do maths? Daily Star Magazine 2012
In his account of daily life in Faridpur at the start of the 20th century, the British District Officer J.C. Jack observed that while many young boys were attending school, girls stayed at home,...
Gender and international migration: globalisation, development and governance (editorial introduction 2012)
Introduction to Feminist Economics Special Issue on Gender and International Migration Volume 18 (2) By Lourdes Beneria, Carmen Diana Deere and Naila KabeerThis contribution examines the connections between gender and international migration around three...