Full Description
This book offers a unique intersectional perspective on gender equality, SDG5. It presents an intersection of gender with caste, class, region, ethnic and sexual identities, and other structural drivers of inequalities in various development sectors. It presents case studies and empirical findings from development practice and policymaking and highlights the challenges to implementing SDG5 in practice. It discusses policies to promote gender equality and prevent violence against women and girls, and women in decision-making and leadership positions. The chapters reinstate that gender equality is possible only if unequal gender norms are transformed to recognize women and girls as independent economic entities and not merely homemakers providing unpaid care. It also analyzes to deconstruct the idea of monolithic masculinity to recognize gender diversity and men's role in providing care. The book shows how much has been achieved, yet how far is also left to go. It is an essential reference point for researchers, policymakers, students, and scholars across gender studies, women's studies, and sociology.
Contents
Chapter 1. SDG-5: How real? How sustainable? — Reviewing progress of an intersectoral framework.- Chapter 2. Respectful maternity care: A corner stone for improving maternal health.- Chapter 3. Self-care for achieving universal health coverage: Sexual and reproductive health and rights.- Chapter 4. Viewing women and HIV through a gender lens - A glimpse into the South and South East Asia Region.-Chapter 5. Gender equality stalled: Re-thinking how will we achieve SDG 5 in light of Covid 19 and other challenges.- Chapter 6. Women and COVID-19: Deepening the gendered fault lines in India's labor markets.- Chapter 7. Children's experiences of sexual violence in Nairobi, Kenya.- Chapter 8. Casting gender in violence against Dalit women: Perpetrators' impunity and constitutional responsibility of State.- Chapter 9. Ladka Ladki Ek Barabar? Gender ideology among young adolescents through adulthood in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 10. Gender, adolescents and SDGs in India: Evidence from UDAYA longitudinal survey.- Chapter 11. Cost of ignoring gender.- Chapter 12. Developing India has an underbelly: The tale of missing daughters.- Chapter 13. Gender equality in India - A distant dream?.
