Gender and Development : An Afro-Indian Study

Contents: Preface. I. African context: 1. Gender differences in small scale firms in Ghana/Rosemond Boohene and Bernice Kotey. 2. Gender, energy and poverty nexus in Ghana/Aba Obrumah Odoi-Agyarko and Daniel K.B. Inkoom. 3. Analysis of household bargaining theory, poverty and gender dynamics in Northern Nigeria/Fatima L. Adamu and John V. Mensah. 4. Best foot forward: voice of women for educational reforms in Ghana/Mildred Asmah. 5. Gender inequality and agricultural commercialisation: results from a case study in Kenya/Tabitha W. Kiriti-Nganga. 6. Women in formal employment and politics: analysis of women in decision making positions in Botswana/Lewis B. Dzimbiri and Mary Pendame.  7. Women in local governance for sustainable development in Ghana/John Victor Mensah and Kwabena Barima Antwi. 8. Gender, poverty and microfinance in Eritrea/Ravinder Rena and Ghirmai Tesfy. II. Indian context: 9. Socio-economic consequences of role conflict among working women/Basavaraj S. Benni. 10. Women, environment and poverty/Siddartha Sarkar. 11. Technology and women empowerment/K. Muraleedharan. 12. Improving economic status of women through microfinance/Jyotirmayee Kar. 13. Women leadership: role of community development programmes/Nirmala Johnson and Dhulasi Birundha. 14. Witchhunting leading to women unsustainability/Arup Kanti Konar. 15. Measuring women empowerment/Manoj Shankar Gupta. 16. Migrants and their families: a comparative study of rickshaw pullers and construction workers/Nirupam Gope. Index.

"The crucial role of gender in rural poverty reduction and sustainable development has recently gained much more attention it deserves in the development arena, while rights-based approach has initiated in some developing countries recognizes that support to indigenous women\'s claims to entitlements, enhancing their traditional knowledge systems, protection of their intellectual property rights and sensitivity to their culture, language and cosmogony can assist in mainstreaming their concerns into the development arena, on their own terms. It also acknowledges these elements as important to the building of partnerships, and the ownership, and hence engendering sustainability, of development initiatives. This book highlights the concerns of indigenous African and Indian vulnerable people and the challenges they face." (jacket)