Asian governments continue to view women as an adjunct to economic development and to address womens concerns explicitly only in relation to family planning nutrition and maternal-child health programming. Rural development projects have failed to support womens productive work or reduce womens domestic burden. Moreover most economic development projects are driven by the profit motive with development taking place in a socioeconomic context characterized by hierarchies and inequality. The six case studies presented in this volume emerged from a Population Council program on Womens Roles and Gender Differences in Development in Asia. The studies sought to document the impact of gender-differentiated access to and control of valued resources and suggest gender-sensitive development planning alternatives. The gender analysis framework that resulted includes specification of production activities activities carried out to produce and care for family members access and control over the use of resources and the benefits derived from their mobilization and exogenous factors (e.g. institutional structures sociocultural factors laws). Such information facilitates the definition of development project objectives in terms of their impact on women and identification of constraints to female participation. The six projects presented in this volume reformatted for teaching by the case method approach are: Chandpur Irrigation Project (Bangladesh) Access to Schooling in Ambakach (India) Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme (India) Batik Project (Indonesia) Aslong Irrigation Project (Philippines) and Saraburi Dairy Farming Project (Thailand). In some cases project directors adopted program design changes recommended in these studies.
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