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TRACKING GENDER EQUITY UNDER ECONOMIC REFORMS
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It is unlikely that there will be much difference of opinion about the fact that along with class, gender continues to be a basic criterion that structures most societies around the globe. In South Asia, the region which provides the main context of the research presented in this book, caste divisions combine with class and gender to generate what must be among the most complex and highly structured, and among the most hierarchical of societies in the world today, patriarchy being only one of the major principles of social stratification in them. Yet these are far from being stagnant societies or polities, sheltered and secluded as it were, from economic and political influences from the rest of the world. For over half a century now, the subcontinent has harboured the largest democracy in the world. And over the last two decades or more, inward-looking autistic growth policies and central planning practices of the 'socialist' era in most of the countries of the region have been gradually giving ground to more open and liberal market-oriented economic reforms. It is legitimate to expect that these changes would have had some influence on gender relations in these societies.
SWAPNA MUKHOPADHYAY AND RATNA M. SUDARSHAN - Personal Name
1st Edition
1-55250-018-7
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TRACKING GENDER EQUITY UNDER ECONOMIC REFORMS
Economics
English
International Development Research Centre
2003
Canada
1-395
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