Exclusions from and inclusions in `developments': implications for `engendering development'
- 2008
- p.48-56.
- 25 Oct
Using official reports and supplemented with field notes, this paper examines the quantum and na;ture of exclusion from and inclusion in "development". Data reveal that for women, education and employment move in opposite directions, literacy among women workers is lower than literacy among non-working women and development is not closing the gender gap. The bulk of women "included" in development disproportionately constitute the unorganised workers; the latter are those in the unorganised sector plus those working in the formal sector as informal workers. Given such a macro context, the paper is sceptical of the feminist agenda of engendering development. - Reproduced.