Practical Action Publishing
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Gender, Development and Care
Deepta Chopra, Caroline Sweetman
Care is a social good; it not only sustains and reproduces society, but also underpins all development progress. Yet the vast majority of care work is done free, at home; and it is widely seen as a female responsibility. This gender division of labour has profound implications for women and girls –...
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Gender, Faith, and Development
Faith-based organizations have long been involved in charitable and development activities. However, the emerging openness to thinking about and engaging with religion in development raises some important questions. Does religious engagement in development policy and practice risk harming already fr...
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Gender, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Caroline Sweetman, Kimberly Bowman
How much have development programmes supported women in their daily lives, and in their struggles for equality and justice? Important though it is for development interventions to be accountable to funders, they are equally responsible to the women and men with whom they work. Monitoring and evaluat...
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Gender, Roads, and Mobility in Asia
Poor roads and transport infrastructure are key factors in the marginalization of women and other disempowered groups, but there is little understanding of the many ways in which a lack of mobility affects people’s lives. In South-east Asia, huge strides are being made in highway development and reg...
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Gender, Small-scale Industry and Development Policy
Links the gender perspective on small-scale industry which explicitly concentrates on social groups, with economic questions of higher employment and wider distribution of production.
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Gender and Inequalities
Naila Kabeer, Caroline Sweetman
As many countries experience increased economic growth they also undergo widening inequalities between classes, castes and sexes. Inequalities of any kind threaten to destabilize the fabric of society, and affect the rich and the poor, exacerbating tensions and crime as well as creating injustice an...
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Gender and the Economic Crisis
Ruth Pearson, Caroline Sweetman
The current global economic crisis is expected to lead to millions more people being pushed into extreme poverty. The effects are profoundly different for women and men, and the existing gender inequalities and power imbalances mean that additional problems are falling disproportionately on those wh...
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Gender and Water Sanitation and Hygiene
At birth and death, and each day in between, individual human need for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is near constant. While WASH is intensely personal, it is also about power, inequality, development and social justice. Inadequate WASH provision both results from and causes continuing povert...
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Gender Dimensions in Disaster Management
This is the first book to look at gender issues in disasters in the context of South Asia, where disasters have a crucial impact on the development process. It shows how exploring the specific capacities and vulnerabilities of men and women in disaster situations, and taking account of them, will im...
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Getting Down to Business
A manual designed to assist trainers to organize and conduct more effective courses for women in business. The vital contribution of enterprising women is increasingly being recognized and more institutions are now organizing special training programmes.