Coping With Change

Assets, Agency and Legitimacy: Towards a Relational Understanding of Gender Equality Policy and Practice

“…Yet, as already noted, there is a rise in patriarchal, unequal and more precarious relationships with the onslaught of global capital and conservative Islam. Young women prefer to migrate to ensure financial autonomy, while older women too are prepared to leave their rural homes and move with their husbands, in the wake of enhanced vulnerability and violence (Sim, 2011). A similar trend is visible in China, with younger women seeking to establish status and power through employment in the urban, industrial sector, rather than land claims.…”