Male bias in the development process

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Male bias in the development process

edited by Diane Elson

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1995

2nd ed

  • : pbk. : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Updated with a new chapter for this paperback edition, this book argues that the development process is marked by male bias - ill-founded and unjustified asymmetries that operate in favour of men and against women. The contributors include some of the leading writers in the gender and development field - Diane Elson, Delia Davin, Susie Jacobs, Carolyne Dennis, Alison MacEwan Scott and Ruth Pearson. Together they analyze the variety of forms taken by male bias: its foundations and the way it changes over time; and the possibilities of overcoming it. The cases considered cover both urban and rural settings; agriculture, industry and services; self-employment and wage-employment; and Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Table of Contents

  • Male bias in the development process - an overview, Diane Elson
  • women, work and property in the Chinese peasant household of the 1980s, Delia Davin
  • changing gender relations in Zimbabwe - the case of individual family resettlement areas, Susie Jacobs
  • the limits to women's independent careers - gender in the formal and informal sectors in Nigeria, Carolyne Dennis
  • informal sector or female sector? - gender bias in urban labour market models, Alison MacEwan Scott
  • male bias and women's work in Mexico's border industries, Ruth Pearson
  • male bias in macroeconomics - the case of structural adjustment, Diane Elson
  • overcoming male bias, Diane Elson
  • household responses to stabilization and structural adjustment - male bias at the micro level, Diane Elson
  • rethinking strategies for development - from male-biased to human-centred development, Diane Elson.

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