December 20th, 2006

How development modernised patriarchy

By Sharmila Joshi

50% of the world’s food for direct consumption is produced by women and women do two-thirds of the world’s work. Yet global development projects from the 1940s onwards viewed women as little more than mothers feeding babies. As a result, the socio-economic status of women actually declined, thanks to development programmes

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