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Author : Prem Chowdhry
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353289505
Seeks to evaluate why few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it by relating it to the gender unequal laws/ policies.
Author : Prem Chowdhry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 8132112857
This edited volume analyzes the different degrees of discrimination meted out to women by the country's inheritance laws and the corresponding customary practices in tribal societies. It also exposes the current socio-legal structure in the country, which systematically denies women the accessibility to and ownership of productive resources. Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership is XIth in the series 'Land Reforms in India', initiated by the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. The volume contains 14 well-researched chapters through which distinguished scholars.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Fao
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052304394
This guide has been prepared to support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society who are involved in land access and land administration questions in rural development. It is designed to show where and why gender inclusion is important in projects and programmes that aim at improving land tenure and land administration arrangements.
Author : Doss, Cheryl R.,Mika, Helena
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Most analyses of the gender gaps in landownership are based on one or a few countries in which little discussion is provided of the institutional context. Yet, the institutions within a given context will certainly influence both men’s and women’s landownership. In this paper, we analyze data from individual men and women respondents to the Demographic and Health Surveys in 45 low- and middle-income countries combined with 28 indicators at the national level of relevant institutions. To measure the associations with institutions, we use indicators of the structure of the economy, land market efficiency, women’s labor force participation, education of women and girls, gender equality, women’s property rights, social norms, marital property rights and inheritance, women’s political voice, and the extent of indigenous and communal property in the country. We do not find a clear association between higher GDP and structural transformation in the economy and a smaller gender land gap. This suggests that economic growth and development alone will not resolve the gender land gaps. The indicators that proxy for more gender equality in the labor force, educational attainment, and legal and social norms are all associated with a lower gender gap in landownership.
Author : Lata Marina Varghese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN : 1443870099
This book presents an informative examination of how the issue of womenâ (TM)s land rights has been dealt with both in Indian literature, particularly Indian English fiction, and in Indian society. The human rights of women are a revolutionary notion that has opened the way for the definition, analysis, and articulation of womenâ (TM)s experiences of widespread violence, degradation, discrimination, and marginality. Globally, womenâ (TM)s land rights are becoming an area of increasing urgency and concern as discrimination against women over land, property and inheritance rights continues to keep them in a subordinate position even today. Land empowers, and equality in land rights is an indicator of womenâ (TM)s economic empowerment and at the same time helps in poverty reduction. Many Indian writers, especially Indian English women novelists, have dealt with issues of land, dispossession, hunger and poverty in rural India in particular, but none have explicitly referred to womenâ (TM)s land rights. For men, land is an essential element of their identity as â ~providerâ (TM), but for women it is a demand for recognition as a human being. However, women in India are rarely landowners, and in most Indian families women do not own any property in their own names. They are usually refused a share in the paternal property, although, according to the Indian Succession Act, 1925, everyone is entitled to equal inheritance. Unfortunately in India, law and society conspire to deny women their right to land ownership, although there have been several legal amendments to redress this gender inequality. This book deals with the gap that lies between womenâ (TM)s land rights in India and the actual ownership of land.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789251304013
This publication provides guidance for reporting on Sustainable Development Goal Target 5.a. Progress towards this target is measured through ownership and/or control over land. This step-by-step guide on the “how” of measuring progress on indicator 5.a.2. covers the collection of information on the policy framework, the assessment of each of the proxies, and reporting.
Author : Rachel E. Brulé
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108835824
Cutting-edge research from India finds bargaining power predicts whether electoral quotas can empower women to upend economic inequality.
Author : N. Fonjong
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956727018
This book explores the customary, social, economic political and rights issues surrounding access, ownership and control over land from a gender perspective. It combines theory and practice from researchers, lawyers and judges, each with track records of working on women and rights concerns. The nexus between the reluctance to recognize and materialize womens right to land, and the increasing feminization of poverty is undeniable. The problem assumes special acuity in an essentially agrarian context like Cameroon, where the problem is not so much the law as its manner of application. That this book delves into investigating the principal sources and reasons for this prevalent injustice is particularly welcome. As some of the analyses reveal, denying women their right to land acquisition or inheritance is sometimes contrary to established judicial precedents and even in total dissonance with the countrys constitution. Traditional and cultural shibboleths associated with land acquisition and ownership that tend to stymie womens development and fulfilment, must be quickly shirked, for such retrograde excuses can no longer find comfort in the law, morality nor in modern traditional thinking. The trend, albeit timid, of appointing women to Land Consultative Boards and even as traditional authorities, can only be salutary. These are some positive practical steps that can translate the notion of equal rights into equal power over land for both sexes; otherwise equality in this context will remain an unattractive slogan.
Author : United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210579513
This publication provides detailed guidance for lawmakers and policymakers, as well as civil society organizations and other stakeholders, to support the adoption and effective implementation of laws, policies and programmes to respect, protect and fulfil womens rights to land and other productive resources. It is based on the results of an expert group meeting held in June 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland, where critical issues facing women today in relation to the enjoyment of their land rights were raised. Land itself can be understood to include farmland, wetland, pasture, rangeland, fishery, forest, as well as harvesting and hunting territories. Throughout this publication the phrase womens rights to land must be understood holistically and in a manner which is grounded in the international human rights framework, and in the context of intersecting forms of discrimination. While this publication focuses on womens rights to land, it is also recognized that land is inextricably linked to womens access to, use of and control over other productive resources, such as property, fisheries, livestock and game. Therefore, the publication also uses the phrase womens rights to land and other productive resources to reflect this broader context.
Author : Billings, Lucy,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Mueller, Valerie
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Improving womens ability to securely access land is recognized as an effective means to increase gender equality and advance other key social and economic development goals. Despite progressive laws in many African countries, gender disparities commonly persist in womens access and ownership of land. Although legal empowerment of women can help to strengthen their claims to land, developing country governments commonly lack the capacity to offer legal services. Civil society is increasingly stepping in to fill the wide gap in legal service provision, with the aim of empowering marginalized groups and individuals to exercise their legal rights. Although legal aid has wide application, this brief focuses on the consequences of regulating services provided at the community level to support womens land rights.
Author : Marjolein Benschop
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Housing
ISBN : 9211316634
Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521429269
An analysis of gender and property throughout South Asia which argues that the most important economic factor affecting women is the gender gap in command over property.
Author : Kenney, N.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789251361061
This legal paper first considers the obligations of states in relation to gender equality and the adoption of temporary special measures, and the work of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee in clarifying and expanding the concept of temporary special measures. In particular, it shows how the General Recommendations of the Committee have established a clear link between temporary special measures and the achievement of gender equality in the ownership and control of natural resources. It explores a range of national approaches to the use of temporary special measures in legislation, from constitutional recognition, the adoption of framework laws on gender equality and non-discrimination, to their integration into sectoral legislation applicable to land, forests and fisheries. The section highlights some of the measures that countries have adopted to show how their inclusion into sectoral legislation can effectively target de facto inequalities in tenure rights over some key economic resources. It discusses state compliance with CEDAW’s Articles 3 and 4 and shows that generally, countries should make more systematic use of this tool to bridge the gender gap in land, forest and fisheries tenure. Finally, it considers the role of development partners in supporting the adoption of temporary special measures, including through data collection.
Author : Sarah Cummings
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015054149565
This title features contributions from the South addressing gender equality and inheritance rights at the household level. Disparities between customary law, family law, and the official legal system are discussed with regard to property rights, marriage, land rights and inheritance. Each article covers the current situation and experiences of violation of women's personal rights and provides policy tools to bring about improvement. Material from across the developing world is included in the annotated bibliography and the resources section. Published in association with KIT Publishers.
Author : Carmen Diana Deere
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0822972328
The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of the first wave of feminism in Latin America. As Carmen Diana Deeere and Magdalena Leon reveal, however, the disjuncture between rights and actual ownership remains vast. This is particularly true in rural areas, where the distribution of land between men and women is highly unequal. In their pioneering, twelve-country comparative study, the authors argue that property ownership is directly related to womenÆs bargaining power within the household and community, point out changes resulting from recent gender-progressive legislation, and identify additional areas for future reform, including inheritance rights of wives.