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"Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the world -- and vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and self-respecting woman should read." -- Gloria Steinem "Devaki Jain's book nurtures your optimism in this terrible war-torn decade by describing how women succeeded in empowering both themselves and the United Nations to work toward a global leadership inspired by human dignity." -- Fatema Mernissi In Women, Development, and the UN, internationally noted development economist and activist Devaki Jain traces the ways in which women have enriched the work of...
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It is now widely recognised that Third World women are playing a critical role in the development process. The best of the vast body of critical work acknowledging this process is presented in this volume.
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Through awareness- building and group information, rural women in several districts in India have realized that deprivation is not unchangeable, that alternatives exist, that they are competent enough to choose between alternatives, and that they are not alone.
"Women in development: a sectoral perspective represents a collective effort by CIDA to bring women's concerns to the attention of programmers within the context of their day-to-day operations. For the use of CIDA planners, project designers, consultants, and Canadian executing agencies, this handbook suggests ways for translating the Women in Development(WID) policy into action by offering guidance on how to plan programs and projects assordingly."--
In recent years scholars have paid increasing attention to the role of women in development and to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as effective vehicles for change. Although there are a great many published studies dealing with each of these subjects separately there are few on NGOs and their work with women. Studies that combine a theoreti