Gender Inequality in Developing Countries

Contents: Preface. List of contributors. 1. Access to credit by women\'s groups in Kenya/Nelson H.W. Wawire. 2. Gender issues in top management position: the case of University of Botswana and Malawi/Lewis B. Dzimbiri. 3. Status of women in Zambia: a case of Lusaka Urban/Eunice Ntwala Samwinga-Imasiku. 4. Gender inequality in rural Kenya: evidence from Central Kenya/Tabitha W. Wiriti-Naganga and Purity Muthoni Njuguna. 5. Gender inequality in secondary and higher education in Eritrea/Ravinder Rena. 6. Revisited health insurance facilities for rural vulnerable in India/Siddhartha Sarkar. 7. Food intake and iron status of lactating and nonclactating mothers in Kenya/Gladys Gitau, Judith Kimiywe and Judith Waudo. 8. Health care demand by women in Uganda/Francis Nathan Okurut. 9. Economic growth in Kenya: how does gender inequality matter?/Tabitha W. Kiriti-Nganga. 10. Gender and natural resource management in Kenya/Isaac Were. 11. Regional distribution of income in Kenya: an intra gender analysis/Seth Omondi Gor. 12. Gender inequality in education and human capital development in Ghana/I.K. Acheampong. 13. Financing constraints of women\'s micro enterprises in Uganda/Francis Nathan Okurut. 14. Gender disparity in technology and productivity of small scale industries in Central Region of Ghana/John Victor Mensah and Kwabena Barima Antwi. 15. Women in sustainable energy development in Africa/N. Narayana. 16. Women status in India: the case of West Bengal/Nirupam Gope. Index.

"Providing equal rights and access to resources and opportunities to women and girls is crucial to reducing poverty. Achieving gender equality requires a focus on both men\'s and women\'s roles. It is a strategy for making the concerns and experiences of women as well as of men an integral part of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally, and inequality is not perpetuated. The policy acknowledges that the goals and priorities for tackling gender equity will vary from country to country and should be sensitive to the specific needs and priorities of developing country partners." (jacket)