INTD 200 Lecture 11: 011 LEC - 24OCT2018 - INTD 200
24 Jan 2019
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Gender in development - contents: promotion of female empowerment, gad tied to neoliberalism, microfinance and female empowerment, emerging critiques, rhetoric and reality, economy of shame: behaviour control by microfinance ngos. Keywords: empowerment, welfare-based approach, women in development (win, gender and development (gad, gender mainstreaming, gender-specific vulnerabilities, neoliberalism, self-help development, female empowerment, social entrepreneurs, microfinance, grameen bank, economy of shame. Gender equality is not only a basic human right, but its achievement has enormous socio- economic ramifications. Women lack access to decent work and face occupational segregation and gender wage gaps. They are too often denied access to basic education and health care. Women in all parts of the world suffer violence and discrimination. They are under-represented in political and economic decision-making processes. Empowerment has now been embraced as a panacea a means and an end of development by development actors. Why?? (aradhana shamra 2008 logic of empowerment: gender,
