POLI 227 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-9: Democratic Consolidation, Gender Empowerment Measure, Liberal Democracy
28 Jul 2017
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Women and development early studies of political and economic change in the ldc weren"t concerned with women"s issues, but in the past decades three factors have contributed to a new understanding of women in developing nations: 1 emergence of feminist of gender-related social science research. 2 policy planners with heightened awareness of how women play a distinct and important role in political and economic development. 3 growing political empowerment of women in many parts of the third world poorer women work primarily in agriculture, domestic service, or the semi-legal urban economy known as the informal sector . Part of the problem is that women subscribe to it. Many women from islamic countries don"t consider female oppression an issue less sensational issues: divorce laws favouring husbands, barriers to women seeking commercial credit, etc. growing force of women"s empowerment. Women have played a decisive role in independent, grassroots political organizations known as new social movements (nsms) started in the 70s.
