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“Devaki Jain WOMEN’S STUDIES POLITICAL SCIENCE Jain opens the doors of In Women, Development, and the UN, the United Nations internationally noted development economist and shows how it and activist Devaki Jain traces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United has changed the W Nations from the time of its founding in 1945. W , OMEN female half of the Synthesizing insights from the extensive literature o world —and vice on women and development and from her own broad experience, Jain reviews the evolution of m versa. Women, the UN’s programs aimed at benefi ting the D , e EVELOPMENT Development, and women of developing nations and the impact of n women’s ideas about rights, equality, and social the UN is a book justice on UN thinking and practice regarding , D UN that every global development. Jain presents this history from the AND THE citizen, government perspective of the southern hemisphere, which e recognizes that development issues often look v leader, journalist, different from the standpoint of countries in e academic, and self- Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The history that l Jain chronicles reveals both the achievements of o respecting woman committed networks of women in partnership p A SIXTY-YEAR QUEST should read.” with the UN and the urgent work remaining to m E J —GLORIA STEINEM bring equality and justice to the world and its FOR QUALITY AND USTICE e women. n DEVAKI JAIN, a development economist and t “Devaki Jain’s activist, was a founding member of the Indian , Association of Women’s Studies, an adviser to a book nurtures n the National Commission on Women of the d your optimism in Government of India, and a member of Julius Nyerere’s South Commission. Her research and t this terrible war- advocacy, infl uenced largely by Gandhian h torn decade by philosophy, have focused on issues of women’s e describing how rights, democratic decentralization, and people- U centered development. women succeeded N in empowering UNITED NATIONS INTELLECTUAL HISTORY PROJECT SERIES both themselves Louis Emmerij Richard Jolly Thomas G. Weiss (cid:127) (cid:127) and the United Devaki Jain EDITORS Nations to work toward a global Cover illustration: Rangoli pattern from Bundi, India Foreword by Amartya sen INDIANA INDIANA leadership inspired by human dignity.” University Press —FATEMA MERNISSI Bloomington & Indianapolis http://iupress.indiana.edu 1-800-842-6796 United Nations Intellectual History Project Series Women, Development, and the UN 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 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 [email protected] © 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, date- Women, 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 3 4 5 10 09 08 07 06 05 Dedicated to the United Nations My notion of democracy is that under it, the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest. —Mahatma Gandhi Contents List of Boxes and Tables xi Series Editors’ Foreword xiii Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss Foreword xvii Amartya Sen Acknowledgments xxi List of Abbreviations xxiii Introduction: Women, Development, and Equality: History as Inconclusive Dialogue 1 1 Setting the Stage for Equality, 1945–1965 11 2 Inscribing Development into Rights, 1966–1975 43 3 Questioning Development Paradigms, 1976–1985 73 4 Development as if Women Mattered, 1986–1995 102 5 Lessons from the UN’s Sixth Decade, 1996–2005 135 Notes 169 Bibliography 193 Index 211 About the Author 227 About the United Nations Intellectual History Project 229 ix
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