'Gender Regimes and Women at the Threshold of Economic Empowerment' a talk by Dr. Govind Kelkar at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 12th March 2014
Time : 3:00 pm onwards
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘India in Transition’ series) on ‘Gender Regimes and Women at the Threshold of Economic Empowerment’ by Dr. Govind Kelkar, Landesa, New Delhi.
Abstract : This presentation problematizes the salience of transformative change in women’s position and gender regimes in Asia. There are two important dimensions: first, the changing nature of women’s work and the quality of their engagement in both the formal and informal sectors. Second, as a result of such engagement, when women have acquired some autonomy in economic decision-making, what is the impact on gender outcomes influencing the development direction towards reduced poverty and inequality? These dimensions are explored in two key economic sectors: agriculture and information technology. The use of a trans-Asia approach is useful because one context can be applied to ask questions about the other. The study, however, does not intend to consider the entirety of change in gender regimes in Asian region or assert a plan of development strategies for the women’s movement in the region. Agriculture and land governance are explored, followed by women’s inclusivity in information technology. The paper also discusses transformative change towards economic empowerment in policy and practice with attention to unmediated asset distribution and capability development, which would help overcome gender-based barriers in the economic empowerment of women. Capability development is not just the upgrading of technical skills; it is a combination of knowledge, skill and effective possession or ownership of productive assets that can be translated into transforming social attitudes and actions, thereby bringing change in gender regimes.
Speaker : Dr. Govind Kelkar is a former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. She is presently Senior Advisor, Landesa/Rural Development Institute and Senior Fellow at International Centre for Research on Women, New Delhi, India. Earlier, from April 2004 to March 2012, she worked as Senior Advisor, Programme and Research, Economic Empowerment Unit, UN Women, South Asia Office, New Delhi, India. She has previously taught at the University of Delhi, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. At AIT, Dr. Kelkar founded the graduate programme in Gender Development Studies and also the Gender, Technology and Development Journal, published by SAGE, India. She has extensively worked on gender and energy transition in rural Asia. She has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals with a focus on gender relations in Asia and has been in close touch with women’s movements in the region. Dr. Kelkar has authored/ co-authored and co-edited the following books:
* Markets and Development of Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Lessons from Development Projects (co-authored), Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2013)
* Women, Land and Power in Asia (co-edited) in Press, Francis & Taylor, 2013
* Adivasi Women: Engaging with Climate Change, UNIFEM-IFAD-The Christensen Fund, 2009.
* International Trade, and Global Civil Society (2008, Routledge)
* Globalization and Indigenous peoples in Asia ,Changing the local-global interface (co-edited), Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2004
* Themes from Celebrating Mountain Women, ICIMOD, (co-edited), Kathmandu, 2004
* Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds: (co-edited) Sage publications, New Delhi, 2003
* Feminist Challenges in the Information Age, (co-editor), Leske+Budrich, Opladen, 2002
* Gender and Tribe: Women Land and Forest in Jharkhand (co-author) Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1991; Zed Books, London 1992.
* China after Mao: A Report on Socialist Development, Usha Publications, New Delhi, 1979.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘India in Transition’ series) on ‘Gender Regimes and Women at the Threshold of Economic Empowerment’ by Dr. Govind Kelkar, Landesa, New Delhi.
Abstract : This presentation problematizes the salience of transformative change in women’s position and gender regimes in Asia. There are two important dimensions: first, the changing nature of women’s work and the quality of their engagement in both the formal and informal sectors. Second, as a result of such engagement, when women have acquired some autonomy in economic decision-making, what is the impact on gender outcomes influencing the development direction towards reduced poverty and inequality? These dimensions are explored in two key economic sectors: agriculture and information technology. The use of a trans-Asia approach is useful because one context can be applied to ask questions about the other. The study, however, does not intend to consider the entirety of change in gender regimes in Asian region or assert a plan of development strategies for the women’s movement in the region. Agriculture and land governance are explored, followed by women’s inclusivity in information technology. The paper also discusses transformative change towards economic empowerment in policy and practice with attention to unmediated asset distribution and capability development, which would help overcome gender-based barriers in the economic empowerment of women. Capability development is not just the upgrading of technical skills; it is a combination of knowledge, skill and effective possession or ownership of productive assets that can be translated into transforming social attitudes and actions, thereby bringing change in gender regimes.
Speaker : Dr. Govind Kelkar is a former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. She is presently Senior Advisor, Landesa/Rural Development Institute and Senior Fellow at International Centre for Research on Women, New Delhi, India. Earlier, from April 2004 to March 2012, she worked as Senior Advisor, Programme and Research, Economic Empowerment Unit, UN Women, South Asia Office, New Delhi, India. She has previously taught at the University of Delhi, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. At AIT, Dr. Kelkar founded the graduate programme in Gender Development Studies and also the Gender, Technology and Development Journal, published by SAGE, India. She has extensively worked on gender and energy transition in rural Asia. She has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals with a focus on gender relations in Asia and has been in close touch with women’s movements in the region. Dr. Kelkar has authored/ co-authored and co-edited the following books:
* Markets and Development of Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Lessons from Development Projects (co-authored), Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2013)
* Women, Land and Power in Asia (co-edited) in Press, Francis & Taylor, 2013
* Adivasi Women: Engaging with Climate Change, UNIFEM-IFAD-The Christensen Fund, 2009.
* International Trade, and Global Civil Society (2008, Routledge)
* Globalization and Indigenous peoples in Asia ,Changing the local-global interface (co-edited), Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2004
* Themes from Celebrating Mountain Women, ICIMOD, (co-edited), Kathmandu, 2004
* Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds: (co-edited) Sage publications, New Delhi, 2003
* Feminist Challenges in the Information Age, (co-editor), Leske+Budrich, Opladen, 2002
* Gender and Tribe: Women Land and Forest in Jharkhand (co-author) Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1991; Zed Books, London 1992.
* China after Mao: A Report on Socialist Development, Usha Publications, New Delhi, 1979.
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'Gender Regimes and Women at the Threshold of Economic Empowerment' a talk by Dr. Govind Kelkar at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 12th March 2014
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