Gender, Development, and Money

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Editor(s)
Sweetman, Caroline
Publication date
2001-01-01
Subject
Economics
Gender
Food and livelihoods
Keywords
Finance
Livelihoods

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Series
Oxfam Focus on Gender
Document type
Book
Description
Money, value, power, and status are linked in complex ways in the global economic system. Male-biased economic policies and practices fail to give equal pay for equal work in any sector; women are more likely than men to have insecure, informal employment; and unpaid work done mainly in the home by women is not valued or remunerated. In this book, contributors from South and North emphasise that in order to end economic poverty and social inequality between the sexes, a profound change is needed in our attitudes to women's work and relationship with money. The belief that 'money is power' has informed much gender and development policy and practice, where concerns about inequality between women and men have been met by a commitment to women's 'economic empowerment', by way of income-generating projects and credit schemes targeted at women. But what role does earning income really play in transforming the power relations between women and men? How far do changes in men's and women's roles affect beliefs about who has the power in the household, the market place, or the state? And how can we value the unpaid work that most women perform in the home and family context?
Table of contents
Editorial; Gender biases in finance; Rural women earning income in Indonesian factories: the impact on gender relations; Just another job? Paying for domestic work; Conceptualising women's empowerment in societies in Cameroon: how does money fit in?; Pathways to empowerment? Reflections on microfinance and transformation in gender relations in South Asia; Mama Cash: investing in the future of women; Money that makes a change: community currencies, North and South; 'More and more technology, women have to go home': changing skill demands in manufacturing and Caribbean women's access to training; An income of one's own: a radical vision of welfare policies in Europe and beyond; Resources
Pages
99
ISBN
978-0-85598-453-3
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121136
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/gender-development-and-money-121136
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