Gender, Social Justice and Sustainable Development

An Asian Perspective

Edited By: Tania Haque, Jamila A Chowdhury

£64.99

Focusing on Gender and Development in South Asia, this research identifies bottlenecks in women’s empowerment. Unlike other collections, this volume moves beyond analysis of the problem to discuss innovative solutions for breakthrough progress and accelerating development.

This edited collection focuses on Gender and Development, mostly from South Asia, which shares a common cultural heritage of patriarchal gender role ideology, and is…

This edited collection focuses on Gender and Development, mostly from South Asia, which shares a common cultural heritage of patriarchal gender role ideology, and is gaining increasing importance in the world development trajectory. This research book indicates the bottlenecks in gender empowerment, the removal of which could accelerate the progress of this region manifold in the coming decades. Based on both empirical surveys and desk reviews, this book deals with diverse issues ranging from gender mainstreaming, violence against women, emerging penology against gender violence, a historical perspective on the role of men as gender allies, and the plights of marginalized groups of women in Asia. Gender disparities in different spheres of national and social lives are discussed in this book through both qualitative and quantitative papers. Therefore, the book can satisfy the demand of researchers having divergent methodological choices. Unlike other contemporary collections, this volume includes not only the situation analysis of women’s limited progress but also discusses innovative solutions to make a breakthrough.

Tania Haque is a Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She earned her PhD on the topic of unpaid care work by women, exploring one of the most critical yet unresolved social norms that significantly hinder women’s progress by limiting their participation in paid economic activities. Dr Haque has made extensive contributions to research and scholarship, having published four books and over twenty articles in both national and international academic journals.

Jamila A. Chowdhury is a distinguished Professor of Law at the Department of Law, University of Dhaka, having five books and more than 25 research articles published in renowned peer-reviewed journals. She holds a PhD in Dispute Resolution from the University of Sydney, Australia. Her pioneering research, which resulted in a paradigm-shifting thesis, earned her a place in the prestigious “Rare and Special Collection” of the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney. Later, an expanded version of her PhD thesis was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.

Ratna Ghosh, Jamila A Chowdhury, Tania Haque, Ravi Shankar Rajaratnam, Shabnaz Amin, Kazi Shek Farid, Pratiti Shirin, Ali Mashraf, Farhana Helal Mehtab, Shrabanti Dutta