Women and Development in the Third World (Routledge Introductions to Development)
Author: Janet Henshall Momsen
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ISBN: 0415016959
Publisher: Routledge (May, 1991)
Sales Rank: 934,041
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Women and Development in the Third World
This book is an easy reader yet it has very interesting case studies that further strengthens the key ideas throughout the book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
An eye-opening look at women in development
Momsen gives the reader a detailed and data saturated presentation of the predominant reasons behind and the characteristics of discrimination against women in 3rd world countries. She makes salient points about local economic function and readily backs up her hypotheses with graphs and tables chock full of econometric goodness. But the book drags at times, especially when she delves into data doldrums. She rescues herself through a well constructed argument that helps neophytes like me understand the complex issue at hand. Overall, a good effort and extremely informative. Keep up the good work.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Katherine Shorey
Momsen's book describes the challenging atmospere in which third world women are living. Their unappreciated and unrewarded role in the domestic sphere has left them too unskilled and uneducated to enter the labor force. Momsen also explains possible causes for the historical gender inequalities that are illustrated throughout her book. She further investigates the role of the women and concludes that the oppression is socially, not biologically based.-Katherine Shorey
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