In 1818 Hannah Mather Crocker, one of the first feminists’ representatives, simultaneously stated that God “has endowed the mind of women with equal powers and capabilities” to those of a men and that “to convince by means of reason and power of persuasion should be both duty and...

While interviewers are generally instructed to administer survey questionnaires on a one-to-one basis, a large share of interviews are actually conducted in the partner?s presence, notably when respondents are advanced in age. In the French version of the Generations and Gender Survey (ERFI,...

Despite gender equity concerns in education emerging as a key area of interventions and debates within the global justice arena, the educational needs of pregnant schoolgirls and student-mothers have received minimal attention. This research is an attempt to make visible the experiences of young...

Focussing on Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa, this study examines the social impact in migrant-labour source areas of dramatically reduced employment prospects in urban areas. It considers the implications for rural livelihoods and the role which gender relations play in making possible, or...

The interrelationship between economic development and gender relations has been found to be multidimensional and complex. This article attempts to analyse the changing gender relations in Arunachal Pradesh, a state that has seen rapid economic transformation in the past few decades, on the...