Gender and Structural Adjustment

Shahrukh Rafi Khan
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Shahrukh Rafi Khan: Sustainable Development Policy Institute

Chapter 7 in Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work?, 1999, pp 124-137 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract ‘If men and women were to take turns bearing children and if men were to bear the first, no family would have more than two children.’ This is a hard-hitting saying by a down-to-earth woman. One could also say that if men lived the lives of poor rural or urban women for a day, they would quickly endorse a special focus on the condition of women. As things stand, in Pakistan, a special focus on women is often suspected to be driven by a foreign agenda. Even so, one needs to consider the ideological resistance to studying women, and to focus on interventions to improve their social and economic conditions.

Keywords: Labour Force Participation; Structural Adjustment; Labour Force Participation Rate; Female Labour Force Participation; Home Manager (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230373259_8

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