Women on Wheels: empowering women through an innovative training and employment programme

Significant victories have been won due to the development sector's engagement with gender inequality as a political project, but regressive shifts have also led to development being conceptualised as a managerial issue rather than as a process of social change. This article uses empirical rese...

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Published inDevelopment in practice Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 181 - 195
Main Author Baruah, Bipasha
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 01.04.2017
Taylor & Francis, Ltd
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Aid - Development policies
Civil society - NGOs
Cost analysis
Employment
Equality
Gender and diversity
Gender inequality
Labour and livelihoods - Poverty reduction
Obsession
Occupational segregation
Research methodology
Social change
South Asia
Training
Women
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Summary:Significant victories have been won due to the development sector's engagement with gender inequality as a political project, but regressive shifts have also led to development being conceptualised as a managerial issue rather than as a process of social change. This article uses empirical research conducted in New Delhi, India with an organisation that trains and employs poor urban women as commercial drivers to discuss how an obsession with "cost effectiveness" and "scale" can delegitimise the valuable work of some organisations. This article encourages re-engagement with gender equality as a complicated social issue rather than as a technical-rational management project.
ISSN:0961-4524
1364-9213
DOI:10.1080/09614524.2017.1275527