Women S Empowerment And Demographic Change
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Women S Empowerment And Demographic Change
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Author : Tapash Kumar Biswas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Women S Empowerment And Demographic Change written by Tapash Kumar Biswas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Bangladesh categories.
With reference to Bangladesh.
Women S Empowerment And Demographic Change
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Author : Deirdre Wulf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Women S Empowerment And Demographic Change written by Deirdre Wulf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Birth control categories.
Women S Empowerment And Demographic Processes
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Author : Harriet B. Presser
language : en
Publisher: International Studies in Demog
Release Date : 2000
Women S Empowerment And Demographic Processes written by Harriet B. Presser and has been published by International Studies in Demog this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
There is general consensus among the international population community that the commitment achieved at the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) to womens empowerment, along with the related goals of improving womens reproductive health and securing theirreproductive rights, represented a paradigm shift in the discourse about population and development, even though there are differences in view whether this is a positive change or not. But while the rhetoric about womens empowerment is pervasive, the concept remains ill-defined, and its relationshipto demographic processes has not been well articulated, either theoretically or empirically. This book brings together leading researchers and policy advocates to explore whether the concept of womens empowerment is indeed useful for an understanding of key demographic processes. Its contributorsidentify new directions for demographic research from the analysis of available data that measure womens empowerment, and point to the implications for population-related policies.Demographic research has focused relatively little to date on gender, let alone the question of power. Yet critiques of available data argue that traditional womens-status indicators, such as education and employment, are often not sensitive enough to capture the nuances of gender power relationsand the ways in which they govern womens and mens reproductive behaviour. This book moves forward to the complex task of conceptualizing, measuring, and analysing womens empowerment. In laying this groundwork, it provides critically important insights into the causes and consequences of populationchange, including migration. The book combines conceptual and empirical research with policy directions and considers the relevance of economic, social, and cultural contexts for the health and well-being of women, adolescents, and children. The countries under study are of both the North and theSouth. This book represents state-of-the-art knowledge on the two-way linkages between womens empowerment and demographic processes.
Greater Investments In Children Through Women S Empowerment
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Author : Carol Ellen Kaufman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Greater Investments In Children Through Women S Empowerment written by Carol Ellen Kaufman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Abortion categories.
The Cairo Consensus
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Author : Saul E. Halfon
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2007
The Cairo Consensus written by Saul E. Halfon and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Political Science categories.
In the early 1990s international population policy faced a crisis--it was being attacked from the left and the right, from inside and outside, for a range of failings--of ethics, fact, method, and vision. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo, provided a new policy consensus that helped to overcome this crisis. Starting from the question of how the transition from "population control" to "women's empowerment" was formulated as an international consensus, The Cairo Consensus maps the discourses, technical practices, and institutional practices that made this transition possible and stable. Demographic surveys in particular emerge as a crucial, though often overlooked, mechanism for policy production and stability. Using detailed empirical material, including over 30 interviews, combined with cutting edge social and political theory, Saul Halfon offers a new look at population policy that will interest scholars of science and technology, international studies, women's studies, development studies, and post-colonial theory.
Greater Investments In Children Through Women S Empowerment
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Author : Valerie L. Durrant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Greater Investments In Children Through Women S Empowerment written by Valerie L. Durrant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Children categories.
Whither Women A Shift From Endowment To Empowerment
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Author : Dr. Smita Nayak
language : en
Publisher: EduPedia Publications (P) Ltd
Release Date : 2016-03-01
Whither Women A Shift From Endowment To Empowerment written by Dr. Smita Nayak and has been published by EduPedia Publications (P) Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with Social Science categories.
Women, who constitute almost half of the worlds population, perform nearly two thirds of all working hours, receives one tenth of worlds income and own less than 1 percent of worlds property are identified as most vulnerable subaltern group. The subordinate status of women as second fiddle to their male counterpart has been legitimized in the psycho-socio-economic-cultural domain/tradition. Women, cutting across caste, class, wellbeing and culture are denied of their own ontology/autonomy, being and becoming, a clear image or self esteem. Back home, in India the position of women in just as an image of domestic doulas, a prisoner of the comfortable concentration camp. The Indian women suffer from lack of self and space, disempowerment, disprivilege, disadvantage, sexist discrimination, gender inequality, invisibility, asymmetries and marginalization. Despite of the principles of gender equality being enshrined in our constitution and despite the state being empowered to adopt measure of positive discrimination in favour of women, still in India they continue to bear the brunt of societal discrimination. It we look at any development parameters say it is health, education, employment, mortality rate; we find the women in India are on very weak footing. The low social status of women in India is clearly visible from global Human Development Index, which ranks India as 118 among 177 nations on gender equality. To address the issue of gender inequality and for attainment of a gender just society, empowerment of women appeared to be significant social and political developments of 20th century, marked a turning point in the history of unequal gender relations, paving the way for a major civilizational transformation. Today, in 21st century the concept of empowerment of women has become central to every development received wide acclamation in the 4th World conference on women held in Beijing in 1995, which observed that women empowerment and their full participation on the basis of equality in all spheres of society, including participation in the decision making process and access to power, are fundamental for the advancement of equality, development and peace. However, the campaign for women empowerment became foremost feminist agenda since mid 1980s. The concept of women empowerment, as looked by Prof. Amartya Sen, is a process by which a woman is ensured with access and choice. It is a process of equipping the women with power, opportunities to assert for her rights and identity in the society. It is against the practice of segregation and subjugation of women and makes an advocacy or the integration of women and identity formation by the women in the local, national and the global forum. However, the entire process of womens journey from endowment to empowerment, the picture looks quite gloomy, as if their centurys long struggle finds them in whithertheir position. To achieve genuine empowerment, women of India have to swim upstream so as to be able to defeat the traditional forces of logo centrism of the norm-based society. This edited volume is concerned with issues pertaining to gender inequality and women empowerment. One of the most urgent challenges now facing human kind is to halt and reverse the growing deterioration in the gender relations that has augmented social disharmony and imbalances. Every country, large and small irrespective of its richness and culture is confronted with this basic human question of gender equality and gender justice. With the emergence of globalization, with free market economy, gender issues effecting status of women and their empowerment question has taken a changed dimension attracting research concern and scholarly attention. Since many issues and current developments concerning status of women are now in the history of gender relations, more research is needed to unfold the myth and reality. This edited volume, aims at and ready to tell how women empowerment has reached to its present state. This volume also examines the rapid changes in gender relations since the 4th International conference on women at Beijing in 1995 and defines the important shifts in the domain of gender equality and womens empowerment. Even in India, the elite patriarch monopolizing state power, once considered the driving force for gender equality are moving away from their commitment, which was very much proved with the defeat of the women reservation bill in the Parliament. This exposes the approach of grand Indian political patriarch to the whole question of gender equality and women empowerment leaving the space for civil society to intervene and act towards its defence. In this volume, attempt has been made to include and accommodate various issue and dimensions of gender relations, gender inequality and gender gap, national and international initiative to address growing societal insensitiveness towards the women, the changing realities pertaining gender equality and women empowerment impacting their present status. This volume, however sought response to some fundamental question on the issue such as, Do women adequately figure in the development retaining their identity? Have the women came out of the cultural and environmental constraints to take effective roles in public domain. At this backdrop the editors hope that this volume through empirical findings and theoretical insights of different authors/ contributors may provide answers to some aspects of these questions.
Gender And Demographic Change
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Author : Karen Oppenheim Mason
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Gender And Demographic Change written by Karen Oppenheim Mason and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Sex role categories.
"A critical review of what is known about the interrelationships between change in social systems of gender and change in the fertility and mortality of populations is presented in the interests of describing the contours of current knowledge and suggesting needed areas of research. Research into the impact of gender change on demographic change is still in its infancy; that on the impact of demographic change on gender systems is practically non-existent. Much of the research used as evidence for the idea that female empowerment promotes lower fertility and mortality is based on weak designs and measures. Studies using good designs and measures are starting to be done, however, and have thus far confirmed that in South Asia, at least, when gender stratification is less extreme, fertility tends to be lower, contraceptive use higher, and child survival greater. We know little about the effects of fertility and mortality decline on gender systems, but this is an important area of study because of the possibility that modern demographic regimes enhance the likelihood of achieving gender equality." (Excerpt).
Feminisms Empowerment And Development
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Author : Jenny Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-03-13
Feminisms Empowerment And Development written by Jenny Edwards and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-13 with Social Science categories.
The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy. Feminisms, Empowerment and Development explores what women are doing to change their own personal circumstances whilst providing an in-depth analysis of collective action and institutionalized mechanisms aimed at changing structural relations. Drawing on unique, original research and approaching empowerment as a complex process of negotiation, rather than a linear sequence of inputs and outcomes, this crucial collection highlights the difficulty of creating common agendas for the advancement of women's power and rights, and argues for a more nuanced, context-based approach to development theory and practice. An indispensible text for anyone interested in gender and development, this book shows that policies and approaches to development that view women as instrumental to other objectives will never promote women's empowerment as they fail to address the structures by which gender inequality is perpetuated over time.
Understanding Women S Empowerment
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Author : Sunita Kishor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Understanding Women S Empowerment written by Sunita Kishor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Control (Psychology) categories.
"This report examines the distribution and correlates of two different dimensions of the empowerment of currently married women age 15-49 in 23 developing countries"-- P. xv.