What Did the Maoists Ever Do for Us?: Education and Marriage of Women Exposed to Civil Conflict in Nepal

Valente, Christine

doi:10.1037/e503952013-001

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“…Nearly 30–40 per cent of the Maoist combatants were women taking up guerrilla roles (Ariño, 2008; Tamang, 2009). But after the war ended, some women ex-combatants faced stigmatization while returning home (KC, 2011; Valente, 2011). The ‘gender dividend’ of war was not straightforward and both ex-combatant and non-combatant women faced severe limitations in building up livelihoods.…”

Section: Gender and Women Situation In Nepal: A Historical And Politimentioning

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Changing Gender Role: Women’s Livelihoods, Conflict and Post-conflict Security in Nepal

Luna

Haar

Hilhorst

2017

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

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This article examines how the Maoist conflict in Nepal affected women ex-combatants and non-combatants, looking at shifts in gender roles during and after the conflict particularly from the standpoint of current livelihood challenges. We argue changing gender roles largely depends upon everyday practice of gender division of labour and power as it evolved during and after the conflict. We also found the conflict had different and contradictory effects: Both categories of women experienced shift in gender roles, with women taking on tasks earlier reserved for men, but this effect was strongest amongst ex-combatants during conflict. In the aftermath of conflict, these changes were partly reversed and especially ex-combatant women faced severe livelihood challenges and returned to traditional gender roles. The article also considers how women experience state and non-state responses meant to improve their livelihoods security in the post-conflict setting. The article is based on in-depth fieldwork in Chitwan and Kathmandu districts of Nepal. It draws on interviews with women ex-combatants/non-combatants and key informant interviews.

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Section: Gender and Women Situation In Nepal: A Historical And Politimentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Gender Role: Women’s Livelihoods, Conflict and Post-conflict Security in Nepal

Luna

Haar

Hilhorst

2017

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

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Getting in, Dropping out, and Staying on: Determinants of Girls’ School Attendance in Nepal

Levine¹

2018

The Impact of Education in South Asia

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Ethnographic research was carried out in 1997-98 to identify factors that determined school attendance among Nepali women in the Kathmandu Valley a generation ago. Findings indicate that gender, caste, poverty, cultural prejudice, and rural residence prevented a majority from going to school. Of those who went, most, regardless of academic talent, were pulled out in order to work at home, as wage laborers and domestic servants, or to enter arranged marriages. Only a small minority made the decision to leave school themselves. The article contributes to the study of schooling and gender in South Asia. [school attendance, gender, caste, Nepal, social change] The gender gap in school attendance in South Asia is greater than anywhere else in the world and is as enduring a form of social inequality as poverty

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Wedding Amidst War? Armed Conflict and Female Teen Marriage in Azerbaijan

Torrisi

2022

Eur J Population

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Does armed conflict influence female teen marriage? Despite increasing attention to early marriage, its drivers and consequences, quantitative research on whether teen unions are affected by situations of armed violence is minimal. This paper addresses this gap by examining the relationship between exposure to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh over 1992–1996 and teen marriage outcomes in Azerbaijan. Using data from the 2006 Demographic and Health Survey and the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, I compare cohorts at risk of teen union before and during the conflict climax years with a modelling strategy that exploits information on forced displacement and spatial variation in conflict violence. Results show that experiencing war violence in adolescent ages, its intensity and frequency are associated with a lower risk of teen marriage. Reductions are largest for the cohorts who spent most of their adolescent ages under conflict and who were displaced as a result. For never-migrant conflict-affected girls, declines extend to the youngest cohorts. The combination of age at conflict occurrence and the experience of disruptive events like forced migration matters for teen marriage outcomes.

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What Did the Maoists Ever Do for Us?: Education and Marriage of Women Exposed to Civil Conflict in Nepal

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Changing Gender Role: Women’s Livelihoods, Conflict and Post-conflict Security in Nepal

Changing Gender Role: Women’s Livelihoods, Conflict and Post-conflict Security in Nepal

Getting in, Dropping out, and Staying on: Determinants of Girls’ School Attendance in Nepal

Wedding Amidst War? Armed Conflict and Female Teen Marriage in Azerbaijan

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