Gender and Development
For Handouts, Reading materials and Reference list see the Google Classroom related to this course
Topic 1: Why study Gender Inequality
# Disparities between Males and females - Facts
# Arenas in which females face inequalities
# The concept of "missing women" problem
# Why we need to measure Gender Inequality
Reference:
Sen, AK. "Many Faces of Gender Inequality" HANDOUT
Topic 2: Measurement of Gender Inequalities
# Methods to measure Gender
Equality / Inequality
# Brief description and
computational methods of GDI, GII, GEM, Gender adjusted HDI
# Critical and comparative analysis
of the different measures of Gender Equality / Inequality
Reference:
UNDP - Technical Notes on GDI, GEI and GII from the UNDP Human Development Reports
Topic 3: Gender and Work
# Forms of gender inequality in
workplace
# Backward and forward linkages of gender disparity in workplace
# Rationale behind Gender based specialisation within the household
# Difference between Inequality & Discrimination
# Forms of Discrimination faced by women in Labour market
# Care work and Women
# Double burden of work
References:
Becker, G.
1981. A Treatise on the Family. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Becker, G. (1985):
“Human Capital, Effort
and the Sexual Division of Labour,”
Journal of Labour Economics, 3, 33-58. [314] http://www.jstor.org/stable/2534997
Endow, T.
Majumder, R, N Mukherjee (2021) Increase of Urban Women’s
Work Participation and Quality of Employment in
Paid-Domestic Work: A Survey in Delhi-NCR and Kolkata-Asansol, Indian
Journal of Human Development, Vol.
15(3), pp410–426,
Sage, 2021,
DOI:10.1177/09737030211066866
[https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/inddev/v15y2021i3p410-426.html
]
Ferrant,
G. (2015). How
Do Gender
Inequalities Hinder
Development? Cross-Country
Evidence. Annals
of Economics and
Statistics, 117/118,
313–352.
https://doi.org/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.117-118.313
Klasen,
S. 1994. ‘Missing
Women Reconsidered’.
World Development
22: 1061-71.
Lama,
Sita, Majumder,
R. (2018) Gender
Inequality in
Wage and
Employment in
Indian Labour
Market, Journal of
Academic Research
in Economics,
Vol. 10(3),
p482-500, 2018
[https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/93319.html ]
Majumder,
R. (2012) Female
Labour Supply in
India: Proximate
Determinants, Indian
Journal of Labour
Economics, Vol. 55,
No. 3, 2012 [https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/43250.html
]
Mukherjee,
D, Majumder, R.
(2011) Occupational
Pattern, Wage
Rates &
Earning Disparities
in India: A
Decomposition Analysis, Indian
Economic Review,
Vol. 45, No.
1, June 2011
[
https://ideas.repec.org/a/dse/indecr/0034.html
]
Mukherjee,
N, Majumder, R.
(2015) Unpaid
Work and Missing
Women in the
Indian Labour
Market, Indian Journal
of Human
Development, Vol.
9, No. 2,
2015, pp191-217,
Sage, [DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0973703020150203]
Olsen, Wendy "Stereo typical and Traditional Views About the Gender Division of Labour in Indian Labour Markets" HERE
Topic 4: Gender & Deprivation
# Intra-household inequalities in Nutrition and Health - Rationale and Impact
Handout here
Problem Set for Practice
# What are the
frontiers in which females face discrimination?
#
What are different forms of inequalities faced by women?
#
What do you mean by ‘missing women’ problem? Why is it more
visible in developing countries?
# Why do we need to
measure gender inequality? What are the different measures of gender
inequality – narrate briefly.
# What are the different forms
of gender inequality in the workplace? Explain with special reference
to developing countries.
# What are the backward and
forward linkages of lower female participation in the workplace?
#
What is the rationale behind gender-based specialisation within the
household? How can it explain lower female participation in the
labour market?
# What factors led to a reduction in
gender disparity in Europe and North America in the 20th century,
much before it started in Asia? Discuss the Kerala experience in this
context.
# What do you mean by gender
discrimination? How is it different from Gender disparity?
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What are the different forms of discrimination faced by women in the
workplace? Explain with special reference to developing
countries.
# What do you mean by double burden of
work? Explain why women face double burden of work in developing
countries. What are its impacts?
# Why does Gender
inequality matter for the development process of a country?
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“Females in the poor households are doubly deprived in terms of
health and nutrition” – Evaluate this statement critically.
#
What drives intra-household inequality in nutrition? Who are the
sufferers of such inequality?
