Exploring the connections: Structural adjustment, gender and the environment

Mackenzie, Fiona

doi:10.1016/0016-7185(93)90016-b

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“…Within households and communities, for example, writers argue that globalizing forces such as SAPs 1 have forced women to intensify their unpaid labor to compensate for declining state welfare responsibilities and the diversion of resources to export-oriented sectors (Bolles, 1983;Safa & Antrobus, 1992;Mackenzie, 1993;Moser, 1993;Haddad et al, 1995). Moser (1993), for example, showed that in Ecuador devaluations combined with cut-backs in state subsidies and spending in areas such as health and education created a triple day for women as they sought to maintain the wellbeing of both households and communities.…”

Section: Globalization and The Changing Nature Of Gender Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Women Rule? Globalization and the feminization of managerial and professional workspaces in the Caribbean.: ¿Las mujeres mandan? Globalización y la Feminización de los espacios gerenciales y profesionales en el Caribe

Mullings¹

2005

Gender, Place & Culture

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The visibility of Caribbean women in occupational positions and workspaces once reserved for men and for people of European descent in the Caribbean raises new challenges to the theorization of the transforming relationship between gender and global capitalism. To what extent are these changes in the professional and managerial recruitment practices of the finance and banking industry constitutive of a new relationship between capitalism and patriarchy? Does the increased number of women in organizational positions that they were once excluded from indicate a challenge to forms of gender inequality in the region? This article argues that in the Caribbean, the particularities of race, class and gender relations have been such that educated women have become significant beneficiaries of the economic transformations in these countries. While it is clear that education has allowed women to challenge patriarchal structures in both the workplace and the home, these achievements have not been sufficient to challenge the gender inequalities that continue to subordinate women in this region. The article concludes that in order to truly empower all women, the very structures of income and class inequality that have facilitated the feminization managerial and professional workspaces must be challenged.

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Section: Globalization and The Changing Nature Of Gender Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Women Rule? Globalization and the feminization of managerial and professional workspaces in the Caribbean.: ¿Las mujeres mandan? Globalización y la Feminización de los espacios gerenciales y profesionales en el Caribe

Mullings¹

2005

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…A particular legacy of Kenya's colonial past has been a highly centralized structure for land tenure and administration. Neoliberal titling initiatives since the 1990s have been widely criticized for their negative impact on women, where preexisting gendered patterns of customary land tenure have led to most titles being registered in the names of male household heads (Ensminger, 1997;Joireman, 2008;Kenya Land Alliance, 2004;Mackenzie, 1993). A stated intention of the 2009 National Land Policy, Land Act of 2012 and Kenya's 2010 Constitution was to promote greater equity in the distribution of land in Kenya.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Equal Right to Inherit? Women’s Land Rights, Customary Law and Constitutional Reform in Tanzania

Dancer

2017

Social & Legal Studies

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This article explores contemporary contestations surrounding women's inheritance of land in Africa. Legal activism has gained momentum, both in agendas for law reform and in test case litigation, which reached the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in ES and SC v. United Republic of Tanzania. Comparing the approach of Tanzania to that of its neighbours, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, this article explores patterns of resistance and omission towards enshrining an equal right to inherit in land and succession laws. It identifies two main reasons: neoliberal drivers for land law reform of the 1990s and sociopolitical sensitivity surrounding inheritance of land. It argues that a progressive approach to constitutional and law reform on women's land rights requires understanding of the realities of claims to family land based on kinship relations. It calls for a holistic approach to land, marriage and inheritance law reform underpinned with constitutional rights to equality and progressive interpretations of living customary law.

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“…Case studies from Latin and Central America, Africa, and Asia show a persistent pattern in which poor urban populations, workers, and small rural farmers disproportionately bear the costs of these austerity programs (Chossudovsky 1992;Garcia, Infante, and Tokman 1989;Ong'wen 1993). Such studies indicate that these policies push local producers into unsustainable forms of production, increasing deforestation, soil erosion, and environmental damage (Cheru 1992:497-498;Hansen-Kuhn 1993;Lubeck 1992;Mackenzie 1993;Tisdell 1994).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Not surprisingly, world systems and dependency theorists, historical materialists, and Marxists of various flavors find fundamental faults with the neoclassical models that stand behind structural-adjustment policies (Beckman 1988;Lubeck 1992;Mackenzie 1993). They argue that SAP is a neocolonial instrument designed to blast open the economies of Third World nations.…”

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A Political Ecology of Structural‐Adjustment Policies: The Case of the Dominican Republic

Greenberg

1997

Culture & Agriculture

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Exploring the connections: Structural adjustment, gender and the environment

Cited by 20 publications

References 13 publications

Women Rule? Globalization and the feminization of managerial and professional workspaces in the Caribbean.: ¿Las mujeres mandan? Globalización y la Feminización de los espacios gerenciales y profesionales en el Caribe

Women Rule? Globalization and the feminization of managerial and professional workspaces in the Caribbean.: ¿Las mujeres mandan? Globalización y la Feminización de los espacios gerenciales y profesionales en el Caribe

An Equal Right to Inherit? Women’s Land Rights, Customary Law and Constitutional Reform in Tanzania

A Political Ecology of Structural‐Adjustment Policies: The Case of the Dominican Republic

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