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WOMEN’S ECONOMIC ROLES & THE DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM
Link to Full 18-Page 2014 Document: http://genderaction.org/docs/Tinker_Zuckerman_Womens_%20Roles_Chapter.pdf
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“The story of women and international development is a story
of women organizing to challenge the development paradigm. Over fifty years,
women have influenced development agencies to include women’s concerns, and
formed a global social movement that has altered gender relations throughout
the world. Today women are seeking political power to advance their claims for
equity. To envisage the years to come, an historical perspective refreshingly
underlines that tremendous progress has been attained for women’s rights and
gender justice (although massive work remains to achieve full women’s
empowerment). In developed countries a century ago, women could not vote and
rarely worked beyond the home. Now they do both although globally gender gaps
persist in earnings, household responsibilities, asset ownership and decision
making. Going forward, countries most resistant to women filling citizen and
economic roles will certainly continue to experience an erosion of traditional
cultural and religious barriers to women’s empowerment in response to citizens’
bottom up organizing and government reforms.”
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