This book supplements the already rich literature on gender by attempting to put in place a consistent framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating ‘gender’ per se from its various ‘indicators’. It seeks to put in place a new agenda of gender research by expanding the existing set of gender indicators to include gender-related stress, anxiety and violence. The viability of this approach is demonstrated through a coordinated set of household surveys – carried out in export processing zones and export processing units – designed for inter-country comparisons between Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ratna M. Sudarshan
Ratna M. Sudarashan is currently Principal Economist, Human Development Programme Area, National Council of applied Economic Research, New Delhi. She has a Master’s degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Cambridge. She directs a programme of research on gender and informal economy concern, and works on education, the policy process and research-activists linkages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Swapna Mukhopadhyay
Swapna Mukhopadhyaya is overall Project Director Gender Network Project and Director, Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi. she is a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and joined ISST as Director in 1994. She has researched extensively on poverty, gender and labour market issues. She has designed and coordinated the Gender network Project from its inception at ISST, which has within the last decade evolved into a premier action research institute.
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