Why Has Development Neglected Rural Women?

Chapter PageI A Review with a Difference Introduction The Meaning of Development Why Consider the Role of Women in Development? Data Sources Why Has So Little Research Been Done on Women's Roles in Rural Development? What is The Role of Rural Women in Development? II Literature on Rural Woman of the Asian Sub-Continent Bangladesh India Pakistan Sri Lanka III What May Have Been Learned So Far Women are Not a Homogenous Group Women are a Disadvantaged Sector Importance of Women's Work Women Live Their Lives Through Their Male Relatives The Stereotyped Household and the Myth of the Ever-Present Male Head Women's Status and Fertility Some of the Effects Of 'Development' on the Roles of Rural WomenIV If More Knowledge is the Answer, Then What are the Questions? Action-Orientated Research Female Labor Participation Female Labor and Family Life Women's Role in Household Management Women and Consumption Patterns Women and the New Technology Specific Women's Progranities Theoretical Research Socio-Historical Studies The Subordination of Women How Women Perceive Their Roles How Men Perceive Women Purdah Women's Structures Women's Role in Society's Larger Institutions:Family, Class and EducationV Conclusion Appendix