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Article: A social and cultural perspective of women and community forestry in Nepal.
- Article from:
- Contributions to Nepalese Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
- Author:
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Introduction
Women were involved in development activities and programmes (perhaps even before Mexico Conference, the International Women's Year of 1975 or the Decade for Women, 1975-1985), they are and will continue to do so as long as they have their given responsibilities to fulfil. The idea of increasing women's participation that we hear so often from agencies, policy makers or planners sounds more like just another rhetoric associated with today's concept of development. Mies (1990) noted that even after the International Decade for Women, the integration of women into development had not solved women's survival problems. She argued that it only increased ...