Menu Expand
Search options:
Tabs navigation
Book

Gender and Inequalities

Naila Kabeer, Caroline Sweetman

Series: Working in Gender & Development

Published: 2018
Pages: 188

10.3362/9781780447278

eBook: 9781780447278

Paperback: 9781788530132

Hardback: 9781788530125

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 and indignity for the extremely poor. Inequalities between men and women lead to lower wages, gender-based violence, unequal workloads within the household and unequal access to food and resources. A focus on inequalities should mean the adoption of a gendered perspective on poverty and a renewed focus on the relationship between social justice and economic wellbeing. This book surveys economic growth and gender inequality around the world, discusses how livelihoods projects have focused on economic empowerment alone, without measuring the relative impacts on men and women, and describes how women activists in the global South are working to get change for women.

'Gender and Inequalities is a timely and multi-faceted engagement with urgent issues of development. Its key message, 'economic growth, if pursued without strategies to curb widening inequalities in society, is fundamentally fragile and precarious' needs to be heard urgently to challenge the mainstream reductive reasoning on development.'
Professor Shirin M. Rai, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick

Add to favourites
eBook

£59.93

Add to basket
Paperback

£18.95

Add to basket
Hardback

£47.95

Add to basket
You might also like:
Gender and Water Sanitation and Hygiene
Women’s Economic Empowerment
Working with Men for Gender Equality
Gender, Development and Care
Gender, Business and Enterprise

BIG CHANGE starts small

Practical Action Publishing Ltd, Company Reg. No. 1159018, England, VAT No. GB 880 9924 76 is the wholly owned publishing arm of Practical Action, Reg. Charity No. 247257, Patron HRH The Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, and trades only in support of its parent charity objectives

© 2020 Practical Action Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

PRACTICAL ACTION PUBLISHING
27a Albert Street
Rugby, CV21 2SG,
United Kingdom

Call us on +44(0)1926 634501

Email us at publishinginfo@practicalaction.org.uk

0
We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.