The absence of gender awareness in policy and planning in the past has given rise to a variety of efficiency, welfare and equity costs. This book develops and analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work. It offers an inventory of the kinds of assumptions which lead to gender-blind policy, and assesses integrationist and transformatory strategies by feminist advocates to influence the mainstream policy agenda. An analytical framework for examining the gender ineualities generated by key institutions through which development takes place occupies a central place in the book. A selection of case studies from the Indian context serves to illustrate different aspects of the framework and its application.
About Author :
Naila Kabeer is a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, where she has specialised in research, teaching and training in the field of gender, poverty and population. She is also the author of Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought.
Ramya Subrahmanian has conducted trainings and worked on commissioned studies and consultancies on gender and development. She is presently a doctoral student at the Open University, UK, working on education administration.
Contents :
Introduction
Section 1. Fromfeminist Insights to an Analytical Framework
From Feminist Insights to an Analytical Framework
Beyond Myths
Every Blade of Green
"More Equal than Other"
"Brother, There are Only Two Jatis-Men and Women"
Gender, Poverty and Institutional Exclusion
Section 2. From Concepts to Practice
From Concepts to Practice
"Should I Use My Hands as Fuel?'
Closing the Gender Gap in Education
From Private to Public
Too Big for their Boots?
Section 3. Following through the Process
Following through the Process
Gender Training Experiences with Indian NGOs
Lessons Learned
NOtes on Contributors