Role of Gender Equality in Development - A Literature Review

Mikkola, Anne

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“…Gender inequality manifests as hierarchical genders relations, with men above women, and women being regarded as inferior and less valuable solely by virtue of their sex. Gender hierarchy is manifested in family relationships, inheritance laws and customs; valuations of women's work and its general invisibility; and the power to make decisions in society, the family, work place, religious and other cultural institutions (Mikkola, 2005). For generations, women have been denied access to resources of their own and thereby tend to be regarded as economic dependents.…”

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Energy in the development strategy of Indian households—the missing half

Reddy

Nathan

2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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There is a growing consensus that universalisation of modern energy services is central to reducing major elements of poverty and hunger, increasing literacy and education, and improving health care, employment opportunities, and lives of women and children. In India, more than 700 million people lack access to modern energy services for lighting, cooking, water pumping and other productive purposes. Without these services people-most often women-are forced to spend significant amount of their time and energy on subsistence activities. This acts as a barrier to the gender development. Although the links between gender, poverty and energy have been studied by many authors, not many have come out with practical solutions. The present paper explores the nexus between gender-energy-poverty, highlights areas of gender concern, and suggests actions. We analyse how women from rural areas and low income households are at the receiving ends of energy poverty. We then analyse the roles of different stakeholders in universalizing modern energy services with specific emphasis to women. We argue how women self help groups can be a vital link in large scale diffusion of energy efficient and renewable technologies. The paper concludes with policy prescriptions of sustainable development and gender empowerment through energy solutions. AbstractThere is a growing consensus that universalisation of modern energy services is central to reducing major elements of poverty and hunger, increasing literacy and education, and improving health care, employment opportunities, and lives of women and children. In India, more than 700 million people lack access to modern energy services for lighting, cooking, water pumping and other productive purposes. Without these services people-most often womenare forced to spend significant amount of their time and energy on subsistence activities. This acts as a barrier to the gender development. Although the links between gender, poverty and energy have been studied by many authors, not many have come out with practical solutions. The present paper explores the nexus between gender-energy-poverty, highlights areas of gender concern, and suggests actions. We analyse how women from rural areas and low income households are at the receiving ends of energy poverty. We then analyse the roles of different stakeholders in universalizing modern energy services with specific emphasis to women. We argue how women self help groups can be a vital link in large scale diffusion of energy efficient and renewable technologies. The paper concludes with policy prescriptions of sustainable development and gender empowerment through energy solutions.

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Energy in the development strategy of Indian households—the missing half

Reddy

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2013

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“…It does not mean that they object the societal patterns but they frame their own pattern. Generally, the gender hierarchy shows in the family, inheritance laws and customs, the valuations of women's work as opposed to men's work, decision-making power in the society, the family, church and social networks (Mikkola, 2005).…”

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“…They seem to lose control over the patriarchal background in which they live. Globally women's lives more than men's are centered at home (Mikkola, 2005). The concept of gender partiality is present in Manju Kapur's latest novel Brothers too.…”

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Counterfeit Reality of Egalitarianism With Reference to Manju Kapur’s Brothers

Jayajothilakshmi

Mohan

Kannan

2022

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The purpose of the study is to analyze the presentation of egalitarianism in traditional and modern world as colored by the hands of the woman writer Manju Kapur in her work Brothers. It foregrounds the relationship between the real world and the fictional world of women which is more or less the same. The chief finding is that the present life of women has a turn and development when compared to the previous generation, but the hidden complexity burst out at certain stage which proves that the convention is still prevailing. The study can help the readers to see the real world through writings and can understand and read the mind of women who suffer from sexual harassment, patriarchal dominance, in due time of optimistic life of fulfilled desires and courage of modern women. This article excerpts the proposed gender study and presents the gender discrimination of two generations portrayed by the writer which clearly exposes the deep variation as well as the oneness, and results in the projection of the real world in words. The positive changes in women’s lives and the sexual deviations too have been discussed. This study focuses on the traditional and modern livelihood of male and female through the novel Brothers authored by Manju Kapur, a well-known Indian women writer.

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“…Su cálculo resulta del cociente entre la PEA y la población en edad de trabajar, expresado en términos porcentuales (MANZANO et al, 2016). Este instrumento resulta útil para analizar las desigualdades de género, dado que el mercado de trabajo es un espacio que se destaca por la persistente desigualdad entre sexos (MIKKOLA, 2005).…”

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Heterogeneidad de la brecha de género en la participación laboral de las migraciones intrarregionales en América Latina (2010)

Manzano

2021

Pap. geogr.

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América Latina se destacó por una alta participación del componente migratorio desde su génesis, siendo el protagonista en las últimas décadas la migración intrarregional, concentrándose los destinos en unos pocos países de la región. Otro aspecto que resalta dentro de Latinoamérica son las diferencias en la participación de la fuerza laboral –total, varón y mujer–, entre los países. Este trabajo de carácter exploratorio se propone describir el comportamiento de las tasas de actividad de las corrientes migratorias según los países de la región, mediante la consistencia de la información disponible de la ronda de los censos del año 2010. Luego de un análisis estadístico-descriptivo del comportamiento de las tasas de actividad de las corrientes migratorias en los mercado nacionales, se sugieren como resultados una relación lineal significativa entre las tasas de actividad total, varón y mujer, y la ausencia de correlación respecto a las tasas de participación de los mercados de trabajo nacionales, con la excepción de escasas situaciones. Latin America stood out for a high participation of the migratory component from its genesis, being the protagonist in the last decades the migration intrarregional, concentrating the destinations in a few countries of the region. Another aspect that stands out inside Latin America the differences are in the participation of the labor force – entire, male and woman – between the countries. This work of exploratory character proposes to describe the behavior of the valuations of activity of the migratory currents according to the countries of the region, by means of the consistency of the available information of the round of the censuses of the year 2010. After a statistical - descriptive analysis of the behavior of the valuations of activity of the migratory currents in them bought nationals, they are suggested as turned out a significant linear relation between the valuations of entire activity, male and woman, and the absence of interrelation with regard to the valuations of participation of the national labor markets, with the exception of scarce situations.

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Role of Gender Equality in Development - A Literature Review

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Energy in the development strategy of Indian households—the missing half

Energy in the development strategy of Indian households—the missing half

Counterfeit Reality of Egalitarianism With Reference to Manju Kapur’s Brothers

Heterogeneidad de la brecha de género en la participación laboral de las migraciones intrarregionales en América Latina (2010)

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