UID:
edocfu_9958075226502883
Format:
1 online resource (pages cm)
ISBN:
0-8213-9892-X
Series Statement:
Directions in development. Human development
Content:
Social norms, gender roles, beliefs about one's own capacity, and assets, as well as communities and countries, determine the opportunities available to women and men-and their ability to take advantage of them. World Development Report 2012 shows significant progress in many areas, but gender disparities still persist. Our study covered 20 countries in all world regions, where over 4,000 women and men, in remote and traditional villages and dense urban neighborhoods, in more than 500 focus groups, discussed the effects of gender differences and inequalities on their lives. Despite diverse soc
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Foreword / RACHEL KYTE -- Foreword / JUDITH RODIN -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Introduction: the norms of power and the power of norms -- The study approach -- Methodology of the study -- Discussing and researching gender equality : a brief introduction to the primary study concepts -- Creating and enforcing gender through norms, roles and beliefs -- Changing norms -- Overview of chapters -- References -- Gender norms -- The rules we live by : gender norms and ideal images -- Normative frameworks for household gender inequalities -- The good girl, the good boy -- Community-level views of gender norms -- References -- Negotiating the norms that bind : a winding road -- The quiet relaxing and changing of norms -- Timing is all: negotiating opportunities and gender-specific responsibilities -- Intergenerational transmission of the possibility of change -- Gender norms in transition -- "A woman should be beaten if she deserves punishment" -- A. extent and forms of domestic violence -- B. causes and consequences of domestic violence -- References -- Having and making choices -- Strategic life decisions : who has the final say? -- Investing in education : why should girls and boys go to school? -- Why should I leave school? : not my choice! -- From school to work : getting the first job -- A. You say, I say: the weight of adult voices on job decisions -- "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage" -- What is mine is yours : asset control and decision-making -- When does choice mean agency? -- References -- Empowerment -- What drives agency? : what crushes it? -- Step by step : climbing the "ladder of power and freedom" -- Perceptions of factors shaping agency -- Combinations of mobility factors -- Men's and women's interdependent agency and gender norm change -- References -- Structures of opportunity and structures of constraint -- Community factors that fuel agency -- Whose jobs? -- It takes a village : local economic dynamism and empowerment -- Impact of laws and local civic action on empowermen -- Change women need -- References -- Final thoughts -- Appendix a methodological note -- References.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-9862-8
Language:
English
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