Policies and Interventions

Pashington Obeng
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Pashington Obeng: Wellesley College

Chapter 3 in Rural Women’s Power in South Asia, 2014, pp 44-66 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter seeks to elucidate recent and historical policies, discourses, and interventions that have shaped the lives of rural women in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, and to identify the unequal impacts of all three nations’ interventions on women of different faiths and geographies. I examine relevant processes and programs, including governmental quotas and NGO activities, by focusing on policies affecting, and interventions in, rural communities. In particular, I focus on the local government level, where panchayats, or union parishads, and sanghas serve as the basis for local governance in which women are elected to serve their local communities.

Keywords: Rural Woman; British Colonial; Indian Government; Schedule Caste; Joint Forest Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137320766_3

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