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A SIXTY-YEAR QUEST FOR EQUALITY AND JUSTICE WOMEN, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UN Devaki Jain Foreword by Amartya sen United Nations Intellectual History Project Series WOMEN’S STUDIES POLITICAL SCIENCE INDIANA INDIANA University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis http://iupress.indiana.edu 1-800-842-6796 “Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the world—and vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and selfrespecting woman should read.” —GLORIA STEINEM “Devaki Jain’s book nurtures your optimism in this terrible wartorn decade by describing how women succeeded in empowering both themselves and the United Nations to work toward a global leadership inspired by human dignity.” —FATEMA MERNISSI In Women, Development, and the UN, internationally noted development economist and activist Devaki Jain traces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United Nations from the time of its founding in 1945. Synthesizing insights from the extensive literature on women and development and from her own broad experience, Jain reviews the evolution of the UN’s programs aimed at benefiting the women of developing nations and the impact of women’s ideas about rights, equality, and social justice on UN thinking and practice regarding development. Jain presents this history from the perspective of the southern hemisphere, which recognizes that development issues often look different from the standpoint of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The history that Jain chronicles reveals both the achievements of committed networks of women in partnership with the UN and the urgent work remaining to bring equality and justice to the world and its women. DEVAKI JAIN, a development economist and activist, was a founding member of the Indian Association of Women’s Studies, an adviser to the National Commission on Women of the Government of India, and a member of Julius Nyerere’s South Commission. Her research and advocacy, influenced largely by Gandhian philosophy, have focused on issues of women’s rights, democratic decentralization, and peoplecentered development. UNITED NATIONS INTELLECTUAL HISTORY PROJECT SERIES Louis Emmerij • Richard Jolly • Thomas G. Weiss EDITORS Cover illustration: Rangoli pattern from Bundi, India Jain W omen, D evelopment, and the UN Women, Development, and the UN [44.222.104.49] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 13:04 GMT) United Nations Intellectual History Project Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas: Perspectives from the UN Regional Commissions Edited by Yves Berthelot Quantifying the World: UN Ideas and Statistics Michael Ward The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance, and Development John Toye and Richard Toye UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, Dharam Ghai, and Frédéric Lapeyre UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly Women, Development, and the UN A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice Devaki Jain Foreword by Amartya Sen Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis [44.222.104.49] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 13:04 GMT) This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2005 by United Nations Intellectual History Project All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, \without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jain, Devaki, dateWomen , development, and the UN : a sixty-year quest for equality and justice / Devaki Jain. p. cm. — (United Nations intellectual history project) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-253-34697-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-253-21819-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. United Nations. 2. Women in development—International cooperation—History. 3. Women’s rights—International cooperation—History. I. Title. II. Series. HQ1240.J35 2005 305.42'09172'4—dc22 2005003698 1 2...