Engendering Wealth and Well-Being: Empowerment for Global Change

by Michael Monteon, Irene Tinker, Cathy Rakowski, et al.

The new international division of labor and the imposition of structural adjustment on Third World countries has necessitated a reexamination of development policies and a reevaluation of the role of gender in their success or failure. Although women often bear the heaviest burden under structural adjustment, there is also considerable evidence of women being empowered through their responses to the challenges of economic restructuring.Based on case...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813321069
• ISBN13: 9780813321066
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 311 Pages