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Women's economic empowerment : insights from Africa and South Asia [electronic resource] / edited by Kate Grantham, Gillian Dowie, and Arjan de Haan. -

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in development and societyPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, c2021. -Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 268 pages) : illustrations. --Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000340341
  • ISBN: 1000340341
  • ISBN: 9781000340327
  • ISBN: 1000340325
  • ISBN: 9781552506172
  • ISBN: 1552506177
  • ISBN: 9781003141938
  • ISBN: 1003141935
  • ISBN: 9781000340334
  • ISBN: 1000340333
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women's economic empowermentDDC classification:
  • 305.4096 23 WOM
Online resources:
Contents:
General Content: Part I Conceptualising the relationship between economic growth and gender inequality. -- Part II Syntheses of GroW-supported research and women's economic empowerment. -- Part III Evidence from GroW-supported case studies in developing country context.
Table of Contents: List of illustrations xi. -- Acronyms and abbreviations xv. -- Introduction: the growth and economic opportunities for women programme / Gillian Dowie, Arjan De Haan, Sonia Laszlo, and Kate Grantham. -- 1. Gender equality, inclusive growth, and labour markets / Naila Kabeer. -- 2. Stalled progress : why labour markets are failing women / James Heintz -- 3. Macroeconomics and gender : the linkages between economic growth and women's economic empowerment / Sophia Kan and Stephan Klasen. -- 4. Developing care : the care economy and economic development / Nancy Folbre – 5. Gender, social norms, and women's economic empowerment / Rachel Marcus. -- 6. A mine of one's own? gender norms and empowerment in artisanal and small-scale mining / Doris Buss, Blair Rutherford, Jennifer Stewart, Gisèle Eva Côté, Abby Sebina-Zziwa, Richard Kibombo, Jennifer Hinton, and Joanne Lebert. -- . 7. Picturing change through PhotoVoice : participatory evaluation of a day care intervention in an urban informal context / Milka Nyariro, S.M. Hani Sadati, Claudia Mitchell, Stella Muthuri, and Milka Njeri -- 8. Paid work and unpaid care work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda : a bi-directional relationship / Deepta Chopra. -- 9. Women's labour force participation in Sri Lanka's north / Ramani Gunatilaka and Ranmini Vithanagama. -- 10. The school-to-work transition for young females in sub-Saharan Africa : comparative qualitative evidence from six countries / Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Adalbertus Kamanzi, and Andy Mckay. -- Conclusion : programming and policy lessons and future research priorities for women's economic empowerment / Gillian Dowie, Arjan De Haan, and Kate Grantham. -- Index.
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General Content: Part I Conceptualising the relationship between economic growth and gender inequality. -- Part II Syntheses of GroW-supported research and women's economic empowerment. -- Part III
Evidence from GroW-supported case studies in developing country context.


Table of Contents: List of illustrations xi. -- Acronyms and abbreviations xv. -- Introduction: the growth and economic opportunities for women programme / Gillian Dowie, Arjan De Haan, Sonia Laszlo, and Kate Grantham. -- 1. Gender equality, inclusive growth, and labour markets / Naila Kabeer. -- 2. Stalled progress : why labour markets are failing women / James Heintz -- 3. Macroeconomics and gender : the linkages between economic growth and women's economic empowerment / Sophia Kan and Stephan Klasen. -- 4. Developing care : the care economy and economic development / Nancy Folbre – 5. Gender, social norms, and women's economic empowerment / Rachel Marcus. -- 6. A mine of one's own? gender norms and empowerment in artisanal and small-scale mining / Doris Buss, Blair Rutherford, Jennifer Stewart, Gisèle Eva Côté, Abby Sebina-Zziwa, Richard Kibombo, Jennifer Hinton, and Joanne Lebert. -- . 7. Picturing change through PhotoVoice : participatory evaluation of a day care intervention in an urban informal context / Milka Nyariro, S.M. Hani Sadati, Claudia Mitchell, Stella Muthuri, and Milka Njeri -- 8. Paid work and unpaid care work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda : a bi-directional relationship / Deepta Chopra. -- 9. Women's labour force participation in Sri Lanka's north / Ramani Gunatilaka and Ranmini Vithanagama. -- 10. The school-to-work transition for young females in sub-Saharan Africa : comparative qualitative evidence from six countries / Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Adalbertus Kamanzi, and Andy Mckay. -- Conclusion : programming and policy lessons and future research priorities for women's economic empowerment / Gillian Dowie, Arjan De Haan, and Kate Grantham. -- Index.

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