• Gender Development & Globalization

Gender Development & Globalization Terryl Blackwell

  • ISBN: 9781788823333
  • Edition: 1st
  • ©Year: 2020

  • List Price : 140

About the Book

Gender Development and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Gender is a development issue because social considerations are not easily incorporated into institutions such as policies, regulations, markets and organizations. This process is often referred to as the mainstreaming of gender in development institutions. Women are often in a disadvantaged position in terms of access to assets, services, information and formal decision-making status. Gender equality is considered a critical element in achieving Decent Work for All Women and Men, in order to effect social and institutional change that leads to sustainable development with equity and growth. Gender equality refers to equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities that all persons should enjoy, regardless of whether one is born male or female. Gender developmental scientists are concerned with age-related changes in gender typing, and more broadly, with many issues about the emergence and patterning of gendered behaviors and thinking. Description of these changes is vitally important as it informs theoretical approaches to gender development. Using a broad lens on age-related changes provides important information describing how development occurs, but shorter time frames are also useful for identifying processes that may underlie developmental patterns. Gender has been increasingly acknowledged as a critical variable in analysis and development planning. Gender is an expression of power in social relationship between men and women.The book will be very useful to academicians, researchers, planners, students, NGOs, civil societies and all those who are interested in women studies in general and gender issues in contexts in particular.

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Contents: 1. Introduction, 2. On Development, Gender and Economics in Globalization, 3. The Study of Women and Gender in Economics Development, 4. Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development in Globalization, 5. Markets, Globalization and Gender Development, 6. Gender Inequality in Health and Mortality.
Terryl Blackwell is a Professor of City and Regional Planning and former director of the Gender and Global Change Program. He has authored numerous books, including several studenttextbooks,andiseditorofTheSocialTheory,The Encyclopedia of Sociology and The Encyclopedia of Globalization. He is the author of 12 books, and serves on the editorial board of Feminist Economics. His research and teaching is in the fields of development economics, gender and development, feminist economics, and political economy of ethnicity, gender, and class. Terryl Blackwell is co-editor of the journal Feminist Economics. His work has focused on gender and development, paid/unpaid work, globalization, labor markets and structural adjustment policies

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