Taking Care into Account: Leveraging India's MGNREGA for Women's Empowerment (Record no. 10715)
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| Personal name | Chopra, Deepta |
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| Title | Taking Care into Account: Leveraging India's MGNREGA for Women's Empowerment |
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| Pages | Vol.50, Issue 6,2019;(1687-1716 p.) |
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| Summary, etc | The potential of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for women's empowerment is immense. Studies examining gender‐related issues in MGNREGA have attested to the high levels of participation of women on worksites, and their positive experiences of working in MGNREGA. This article argues, however, that an exclusive focus on increased participation of women does not serve an agenda of promoting ‘women's empowerment’. By ignoring the dynamics and processes of unpaid care work, both the making and the implementation of the Act fall short of the goal of women's empowerment. The author argues that this invisibilizing of care arises from the gendered nature of the interactions of formal and informal institutions that have shaped MGNREGA. The article examines the gendered debates during the formulation of the Act and analyses the gendered nature of its implementation. It concludes that a true focus on women's empowerment requires that women's lived experiences are taken into account, especially those relating to their unpaid care responsibilities. MGNREGA's potential for women's empowerment can only be achieved through adequate implementation and monitoring of its gender provisions, which in turn depend on changing the formal and informal institutions that underpin policy processes. |
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| Place, publisher, and date of publication | West Sussex John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1970 |
| Title | Development and change |
| International Standard Serial Number | 0012-155X |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12535 |
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