This paper provides an introduction to "women and development" by tracing the main trends in the way women's issues … have been conceptualized in the development context. Part I of the paper explains the emergence of women in development … (WID) in the early 1970s, highlighting in particular a dominant strand of thinking within WID that sought to make women …

. During the United Nations Decade for Women (1976-1985) most member states of the United Nations adopted some form of … governmental machinery to ensure that all government activity was monitored for its impact on women. This paper provides case … studies of women's policy machinery in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The title derives from the uneasy relationship …

beginning of the twenty-first century, more than two million women were estimated to be working in the region, accounting for … their women to migrate and remit their earnings from aborad, but in the face of global competition, governments of source … countries have shown little interest in their migrant women's welfare. In the context of the E/SE Asian countries' bleak records …

Since the early 1980s an export-oriented garments industry has mushroomed in Bangladesh, with women workers …, considerable attention has been paid to the motivations of employers: the lower cost of young women workers, and their assumed … women into the garments factories of Bangladesh also requires the consideration of the "push" factors that underpin it …

Women and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Issues and Sources is a review of literature dealing with political, economic … and social reconstruction from a gender perspective. One of its objectives is to go beyond conventional images of women as … victims of war, and to document the many different ways in which women make a contribution to the rebuilding of countries …

of household members seeking off-farm employment, and the increased participation of rural women as both own-account and … changes in rural women’s work over time, the dominant trend in the region over the past several decades has been towards the … feminization of agriculture. The growth in women’s agricultural wage employment has been concentrated in the non-traditional agro …