Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development

This is a contributed book on the status of women in world economic development. It deals with issues of women in development in local economies, theories of development and their relation to women, power and powerlessness, the linkages between education and work, and justice. All of the chapters, except one, were written for this book. It includes writers from a broad range of ideological points of view. Thus there is no advocacy of a single point of view.