 Domesticated gender (in) equality: Women’s education & gender relations among rural communities in PakistanAyesha Khurshid International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, vol. 51, issue C, 43-50 Abstract: Grounded in a gender equity perspective, this ethnography of educated women professionals from rural and low-income communities of Pakistan examines the impact of women’s education on gender relations in the domestic sphere. The analysis shows how education can produce contested practices of gender equality through providing educated women access to new roles in public spaces while further integrating them in the domestic sphere. It questions the current emphasis on gender parity among international educational policies and projects as the key to empowering women. Instead of approaching gender equality as the ability of educated women to participate in public institutions, this article emphasizes the need to examine how education can reproduce certain gender hierarchies while transforming others in the domestic sphere. Keywords: International education; Women’s education; Gender equality; Domestic gender relations; Culture; Muslim women (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:injoed:v:51:y:2016:i:c:p:43-50 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.08.001 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Educational Development is currently edited by Stephen P Heyneman More articles in International Journal of Educational Development from Elsevier |
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