Gender Justice, Development, and Rights

by Elaine Weinmann, Maxine Molyneux, Shahra Razavi

Recent years have seen a shift in the international development agenda in the direction of a greater emphasis on rights and democracy. This brought many positive changes in women's rights and political representation as well as in human rights more broadly. In much of the world, however, these advances were not matched by significant progress in the achievement of greater social justice. Rising income inequalities, coupled with widespread poverty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199256446
• ISBN13: 9780199256440
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages