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The contributors to this edited volume explore the effects of
various development strategies and associated macroeconomic
policies on women's well-being and progress towards gender
equality. Detailed analyses of major UN reports on gender reveal
the different approaches to assessing absolute and relative
progress for women and the need to take into account the specifics
of policy regimes when making such assessments. The book argues
that neoliberal policies, especially the liberalization of trade
and investment, make it difficult to close gender wage and earnings
gaps, and new gender sensitive policies need to be devised. These
and other issues are all examined in more detail in several
gendered development histories of countries from Latin America and
Asia.
This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the linkages
between inequality, development, and growth from a feminist
economics perspective. More specifically, it examines connections
between intergroup inequality and macroeconomic outcomes,
considering various channels through which gender, growth, and
development interact. Using a range of analytical methods, country
studies, and levels of aggregation, the contributors argue that
inequalities based on gender, race, ethnicity, and class undermine
the ability of people to provision and live fully to their
capabilities. Authors examine the effect of macroeconomic policies
and economic growth on inequalities in material resources and
well-being, as well as the effects of inequality on economic
growth. The volume offers specific explanations for how the
macroeconomy can hinder the achievement of gender equality and in
turn how gender relations in areas like education and wage gaps can
have macro-level impacts. Finally, the volume offers a rich array
of policy options for promoting gender equality as both an
intrinsic goal and a step toward improving well-being and
broadly-shared development. This book was published as a special
issue of Feminist Economics.
This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the linkages
between inequality, development, and growth from a feminist
economics perspective. More specifically, it examines connections
between intergroup inequality and macroeconomic outcomes,
considering various channels through which gender, growth, and
development interact. Using a range of analytical methods, country
studies, and levels of aggregation, the contributors argue that
inequalities based on gender, race, ethnicity, and class undermine
the ability of people to provision and live fully to their
capabilities. Authors examine the effect of macroeconomic policies
and economic growth on inequalities in material resources and
well-being, as well as the effects of inequality on economic
growth. The volume offers specific explanations for how the
macroeconomy can hinder the achievement of gender equality and in
turn how gender relations in areas like education and wage gaps can
have macro-level impacts. Finally, the volume offers a rich array
of policy options for promoting gender equality as both an
intrinsic goal and a step toward improving well-being and
broadly-shared development. This book was published as a special
issue of Feminist Economics.
The contributors to this edited volume explore the effects of
various development strategies and associated macroeconomic
policies on women's well-being and progress towards gender
equality. Detailed analyses of major UN reports on gender reveal
the different approaches to assessing absolute and relative
progress for women and the need to take into account the specifics
of policy regimes when making such assessments. The book argues
that neoliberal policies, especially the liberalization of trade
and investment, make it difficult to close gender wage and earnings
gaps, and new gender-sensitive policies need to be devised. These
and other issues are all examined in more detail in several
gendered development histories of countries from Latin America and
Asia.
As women's labor force participation has risen around the globe,
scholarly and policy discourse on the ramifications of this
employment growth has intensified. This book explores the links
between maternal employment and child health using an international
perspective that is grounded in economic theory and rigorous
empirical methods. Women's labor-market activity affects child
health largely because their paid work raises household income,
which strengthens families' abilities to finance healthcare needs
and nutritious food; however, time away from children could
counteract some of the benefits of higher socioeconomic status that
spring from maternal employment. New evidence based on data from
nine South and Southeast Asian countries illuminates the potential
tradeoff between the benefits and challenges families contend with
in the face of women's labor-market activity. This book provides
new, original evidence on links between maternal employment and
children's health using data associated with three indicators of
children's nutritional status: birth size, stunting, and wasting.
Results support the implementation and enforcement of policy
interventions that bolster women's advancement in the labor market
and reduce undernutrition among children. Scholars, students,
policy makers and all those with an interest in nutritional
science, gender, economics of the family, or development economies
will find the methodology and original results expounded here both
useful and informative. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Women's
Employment Around the Globe 3. Conceptual Framework 4. Existing
Evidence on Maternal Employment and Child Health 5. Data and
Methodology 6. New Results for South and Southeast Asia 7.
Conclusion and Policy Implications
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