Gender, Development, and Diversity
Each one of us lives life as a carrier of multiple identities - including gender, race, class and age. The sum of these identities determines our opportunities in life, and empowers or disempowers us, depending on our context. This collection of articles focuses on the implications that this has for development goals of poverty alleviation and human rights. In particular, critiques from Southern women challenge development organisations for their inadequate and inappropriate policy and practice. Development programmes have addressed gender inequality as a key concern, but most organisations have yet to understand how other aspects of difference intersect with gender to unite and divide groups of women from each other. Improving development policy and practice means understanding inequality in its complexity, and developing ways of working which acknowledge difference, rather than suppress it. It means practising as we preach, by transforming our own organisational cultures. This entails confronting issues of power and inequality, and challenging racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. Contributors to this issue include Ranjani K Murthy, Everjoice Win, and Dorine Plantenga. Case studies come from India, Zimbabwe, Latin America and the UK.
Published: 2004
Pages: 92
eBook: 9780855987381
Paperback: 9780855985318
| Editorial | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Sweetman | |||
| Organisational strategy in India and diverse identities of women: bridging the gap | |||
| Ranjani K.Murthy | |||
| When sharing female identity is not enough: coalition building in the midst of political polarisation in Zimbabwe | |||
| Everjoice J. Win | |||
| Microfinance from the point of view of women with disabilities: lessons from Zabia and Zimbabwe | |||
| Cindy Lewis | |||
| Gender, identity, and diversity: learning from insights gained in transformative gender training | |||
| Dorine Plantenga | |||
| Promoting cultural diversity and the rights of women: the dilemmas in 'intersectionality' for development organisations | |||
| Liesbeth van der Hoogte and Koos Kingma | |||
| Diversity in Oxfam GB: engaging the head and turning the heart | |||
| Bimla Ojelay-Surtees | |||
| Poverty reduction policy responses to gender and social diversity in Uganda | |||
| Dereje Wordofa | |||
| Empowerment through activism: responding to domestic violence in the South Asian community in London | |||
| Aisha Gill and Gulshun Rehman | |||
| Resources | |||
| Compiled by Erin Leigh | |||
| Publications | |||
| Journals | |||
| Electronic resources | |||
| Briefing papers and tools | |||
| Organisations | |||
| Conferences |
Caroline Sweetman
Caroline Sweetman is Editor of the international journal Gender & Development and works for Oxfam GB.
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