Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice

About the United Nations Intellectual History Project

About the United Nations Intellectual History Project Ideas and concepts are a main driving force in human progress, and they are arguably the most important contribution of the United Nations. Yet there has been little historical study of the origins and evolution of the history of economic and social ideas cultivated within the world organization and of their impact on wider thinking and international action. The United Nations Intellectual History Project is filling this knowledge gap about the UN by tracing the origin and analyzing the evolution of key ideas and concepts about international economic and social development born or nurtured under UN auspices. The UNIHP began operations in mid-1999 when the secretariat, the hub of a worldwide network of specialists on the UN, was established at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies of The CUNY Graduate Center. The UNIHP has two main components, oral history interviews and a series of books on specific topics. The seventy-three in-depth oral history interviews with leading contributors to crucial ideas and concepts within the UN system provide the raw material for this volume. Complete and indexed transcripts will be made available to researchers and the general public in 2006. The project has commissioned fifteen studies about the major economic and social ideas or concepts that are central to UN activity, which are being published by Indiana University Press. • Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges, by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss (2001) • Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas: Perspectives from the UN Regional Commissions, edited by Yves Berthelot with contributions from Adebayo Adedeji,Yves Berthelot,Leelananda de Silva,Paul Rayment,Gert Rosenthal, and Blandine Destremeau (2003) • Quantifying theWorld: UN Contributions to Statistics, by MichaelWard (2004) • UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice, by Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, Dharam Ghai, and Frédéric Lapeyre (2004) • The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance, and Development, by John Toye and Richard Toye (2004) 229 About the United Nations Intellectual History Project 230 • UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice, by Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly (2005) • Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice , by Devaki Jain (2005) Forthcoming Titles: • Human Security and the UN: A Critical History, by S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong-Khong (2006) • The UN and Human Rights Ideas: The Unfinished Revolution, by Sarah Zaidi and Roger Normand (2006) • The UN and Development Cooperation, by Olav Stokke (2006) • The UN and the Global Commons: DevelopmentWithout Destruction, by Nico Schrijver (2006) • The UN and Transnationals, from Code to Compact, by Tagi Sagafi-nejad, in collaboration with John Dunning (2006) • The UN and Global Governance: An Idea and Its Prospects, by Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss (2007) • The United Nations: A History of Ideas and Their Future, by Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss (2007) The project is also collaborating on The Oxford Handbook on the UN, edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2007. For further information, the interested reader should contact: UN Intellectual History Project The CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5203 New York, New York 10016-4309 212-817-1920 Tel 212-817-1565 Fax UNHistory@gc.cuny.edu www.unhistory.org ...