In Search of Gendered Development A Compendium Author(s) Haroon Jamal,Iffat Ara,Khalida Ghaus,Muhammad Sabir,Nadeem Ahmed,Rafea Anis Edited by: Kaiser Bengali This book is a collection of gender-specific studies that attempt to throw light on women in various aspects of development activity. Comprising a total of eight studies, two of them address gender dimensions of demography, income, consumption, asset ownership, housing, education and health; two analyze issues relating to women’s employment – one, arising from trade liberalization and , the other, with respect to the rural non-farm economy; two examine gender dimensions of displacement – one, in urban and, the other, in rural context; and two highlight issues of women’s vulnerability –one, in terms of violence against women and the other in terms of the body of laws dealing with women workers and with protection of women. The gendered treatment of a range of issues brings forth the fact that policymaking in aggregate terms tends to leave out aspects that affect women and, as such, an explicit gendered view is necessary. All the studies included in the book reveal that women are vulnerable and subject to implicit, and often, explicit, discrimination; which is, largely, a function of archaic traditional socio-cultural values ingrained by feudal-tribal norms and compounded by religion. spdc.org.pk/Publication_detail.aspx?sysID=759
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