Studies, particularly Ester Boserup's Woman's Role in Economic Development, substantiated women's many economic activities and were used to persuade international development planners and nongovernmental organizations to include women in their projects. Organizing women empowered them; income projects, ...
Examines the impact of trade and macroeconomic policies in Asia on women's participation in economic development. Pursuit of export-oriented and open market economy policies by newly industrialized economies; Philippines' adoption of import-substitution policies; Relationship between adoption of neutral ...
Self Help Group s enhance the equality of status of women as participants, decision-makers and beneficiaries in the democratic, economic, social and cultural spheres of life. The present paper is mainly focusing on the Self Help Group formation, women entrepreneurship and economic empowerment of ...
After reviewing theories about how women are likely to fare as a result of economic development, the editors and their contributors focus on the socioeconomic status of women and changes in it as a result of processes of economic development in individual countries in five continents. Economic dev...
R.geethanjali and K.Prabhakar (2013), Economic Development Of Women Through Self Help Groups In YSR District, Andhra Pradesh, India ,Journal of Studies On Home And Community Science, ISSN 0973-7189, Vol -7, Issue 1 pp: 25- 34 (International journal)....
development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two levers would set a virtuous circle in motion? This paper reviews the literature on both...
Women’s studies in the People’s Republic of China has been established as an academic discipline since the mid 1980s and was made possible by the post-Mao reforms. While the political and economic reforms and the open door policy are causing problems for women, they do have the advantage...
Economic Development and Gender Disparities: The Japanese Experience This chapter examines the relationships between gender disparities and economic development, and attempts to identify links between economic development and women's well-being in Japan's experience of industrialization. H Nogami - Palgrave...
we need to protect women's rights and interests and improve their lives, and ensure that women's development goes hand in hand with economic and social development. We need to remove barriers and create an enabling environment in which women are motivated, their creativity is unleashed to the ...
The patriarchal ideology influences and shapes the sexual division of labor where their work and status is determined by sex, within the home and workplace and limits their access to economic and other community resources. Gender and Development (GAD), Women in Development (WID), Women in Busine...