Women Participation and Development Strategies Book

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Review of women studies. 3. Women participation–a conceptual framework. 4. Development organisations and women in development. 5. Women participation in development programmes. 6. Determinants of women participation. 7. Conclusions and suggestions. Bibliography. Index.

"Development is not sex neutral. It is biased against the fair sex. Of course, the world has progressed and some benefits are percolated to women. But an inferior role is ascribed to them in all societies. They are alienated and discriminated everything at the criminal wastage of halt of the human resources. At present, the common sense of participatory development compels planners as well as policy makers to extend the same logic to involve women to accelerate the pace prosperity.

Governmental and non-governmental organisations are fully convinced about the urgency of women participation in their development programmes, not only to ensure better results but to promote gender equality as well. The book is exhaustively covering theoretical, methodological and empirical dimensions of women participation in development. It is the outcome of personal experience and painstaking studies in the field of development organisations. Recent theories of organisational resources, role of women in development, modified methodology to measure people’s participation, elaborated case studies etc. are given to suit the needs of wide readership. Development practioners and women activists will get immense insight into the factors promoting and preventing women participation in the development programmes of a developing society. In order to satisfy the needs of academicians and research scholars, innumerable case studies are reviewed, theories are given and methodology to measures participation is developed. Since the comparative performance of governmental and non-governmental organisations are studied in detail, planners and policy makers may also feel the utility of the book." (jacket)