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Cover -- Gender Challenges: Volume 1: Agriculture, Technology, and Food Security -- Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Credits -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Women and Technological Change in Agriculture: The Asian and African Experience -- 2: Agricultural Mechanisation and Labour Use: A Disaggregated Approach -- 3: Rural Women and the High Yielding Variety Rice Technology in India -- 4: Women, Poverty, and Agricultural Growth in India -- 5: Work Participation of Rural Women in the Third World: Some Data and Conceptual Biases -- 6: The Diffusion of Rural Innovations: Some Analytical Issues and the Case of Wood-Burning Stoves -- 7: Social Security and the Family: Coping with Seasonality and Calamity in Rural India -- 8: Rethinking Agricultural Production Collectivities -- 9: Food Crises and Gender Inequality -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author -- Gender Challenges: Volume 2: Property, Family, and the State -- Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Credits -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Gender and Command over Property: A Critical Gap in Economic Analysis and Policy in South Asia -- 2: Gender and Legal Rights in Agricultural Land in India -- 3: Widows versus Daughters or Widows as Daughters?: Property, Land, and Economic Security in Rural India -- 4: 'Bargaining' and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household -- 5: 'The Family' in Public Policy: Fallacious Assumptions and Gender Implications -- 6: Toward Freedom from Domestic Violence: The Neglected Obvious -- 7: 'Bargaining', Gender Equality, and Legal Change: The Case of India's Inheritance Laws -- 8: Gender, Resistance, and Land: Interlinked Struggles over Resources and Meanings in South Asia

This is the first major study of gender and property in South Asia. In a pioneering and comprehensive analysis Bina Agarwal argues that the single most important economic factor affecting women's situation is the gender gap in command over property. In rural South Asia, the most significant form of property is arable land, a critical determinant of economic well-being, social status, and empowerment. But few women own land; fewer control it. Drawing on a vast range of interdisciplinary sources and her own field research, and tracing regional variations across five countries, the author investigates the complex barriers to women's land ownership and control, and how they might be overcome. The book makes significant and original contributions to theory and policy concerning land reforms, 'bargaining' and gender relations, women's status, and the nature of resistance

Betrifft die Länder Bangladesch, die VR China, Indien, Malaysia und Sri Lanka

One of the earliest demands of Indian women's organisations in the pre-Independence period was the right to be elected to legislative bodies. Yet, almost a century later, a vast gender gap persists in terms of women's presence at all levels of governance. Why is it important to include women in political and policy decision-making bodies, beyond the issue of equality? Do women representatives necessarily represent women's interests? Indeed, how do we define women's interests and how can they be represented best? And how much presence makes for effective representation? This paper addresses these questions, both conceptually and based on empirical evidence.

The gender and politics literature has long debated how women's proportional strength affects policy formulation within legislatures. Studies on gender and environmental governance have focused mainly on women's limited participation in local institutions. Both bodies of work leave important aspects unexplored. The former neglects the in-between process - the impact of women's numbers on their effective participation, such as attending and speaking up at meetings, and holding office. The latter neglects to ask: what impact would increasing women's proportions have on participation and what proportions are effective? Rigorous empirical analysis is also scarce. Addressing these gaps, this paper, based on primary data for community forestry institutions in India and Nepal, statistically tests if a group's gender composition affects women's effective participation, and if there are any critical mass effects. The results support the popularly emphasized proportions of one-quarter to one-third, but women's economic class also matters, as do some factors other than women's numbers. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.