Economic Development and Women in the World Community
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Economic Development and Women in the World Community
By (Author) Hans C. Blomqvist
By (author) Kartik Roy
By (author) Clement A. Tisdell
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th April 1999
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Gender studies, gender groups
Cultural studies
338.90082
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
397g
Description
After reviewing theories about how women are likely to fare as a result of economic development, the editors and their contributors focus on the socioeconomic status of women and changes in it as a result of processes of economic development in individual countries in five continents. Economic development is supposed to remove impediments to the improvement in women's status. In some developing countries researchers have found that instead of lessening the forces of restrictions, economic development may, in fact, have strengthened them. The editors call for a greater involvement of women as active participants in the process of dismantling social, legal, and institutional barriers to women's development.
Reviews
This book is a significant contribution to the literature on women and development, even though it retells--in some respects updating--what is by now for the most part a familiar story. Its editors and other contributors are fully aware of the crucial relation between the status of women and successful and sustainable economic development . . .-Studies in Comparative International Development
"This book is a significant contribution to the literature on women and development, even though it retells--in some respects updating--what is by now for the most part a familiar story. Its editors and other contributors are fully aware of the crucial relation between the status of women and successful and sustainable economic development . . ."-Studies in Comparative International Development
Author Bio
HANS C. BLOMQVIST is Associate Professor of Economics at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Vasa, Finland. Dr. Blomqvist is the author or editor of numerous journal articles and five books including Economic Development and Women in the World Community (Praeger, 1996). CLEMENT A. TISDELL is Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia and the author of numerous books and articles on economic, development and environmental subjects.
