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Gender
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- 1—• MDG 2 – achieve universal primary education
• MDG 3 promote gender equality and empowerment women
• MDG 4 reduce child mortality
• MDG 5 improvement maternal health
• Gender empowerment measure indicator of the progress made by women in society
• Gender related development index measure life expectancy literacy years in school number of women work and women’s income
• Dual burden of labour - 2Joan Holmes• Women disproportionally suffer from burden of poverty
• Are the primary agents of child welfare
• Are the victims of widespread and persistent discrimination in all areas of life
• Unless issues to do with gender are addressed the Mdg’s won’t be achieved - 3Swasti mitter• The impact of ict on female employment in developing countries is positive
• Allows them to work from home flexible hours
• But they’re concentrated towards the bottom end of the work ladder - 4Deere and vallen• Female labour has been exploited by tnc’s because they see women cheap long hours unskilled workers
- 5Leonard• criticised official aid as not being gender neutral
- 6Socialist feminist• believes that socialism can help create a gender neutral society
• can bring about equality - 7Radical feminist• developed as a tool to make women more dependent on men
- 8Ecofeminism• men are destroying the world
- 9Explaining gender inequality• intergration thesis- associated with modernisation theory and holds that traditional society is inherently patriarchal
• maginlisation thesis – maintain that women have become gradually excluded from society by development
• exploitation thesis – argue that inequality has formed by the development of a world capitalist system
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- flower97_6 · May 2015
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- Feb 19, 2016
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