DEVELOPMENT & DISPLACEMENT OF WOMEN IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Author:

S. Pandey

Publisher:

MD PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD

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Publisher

MD PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD

Publication Year 2011
ISBN-13

9788175333574

ISBN-10 9788175333574
Binding

Paperback

Edition FIRST
Number of Pages 293 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 21x13x1.5
Weight (grms) 386

Over the last fifty years, massive development processes have occurred in the countries of Southeast Asia. Very few have helped rural women. Indeed, policies on development, labour, agriculture, environment, and population rarely consider women's views and needs. The development paths followed by Southeast Asian countries are based increasingly on monocentric industrialisation in urban centres where resoures and services are increasinlgy concentrated. This has led to a relative shrinkage of the rural sector, increasing food prices and creating and unhealthy reliance on supplementary food imports. Rural communities in general and rural women in particular are especially vulnerable to the processes of impoverishment. These include the degradation, depletion or loss of the natural resource base. 


Southeast Asia's tiger-paced growth over decades has drawn many women into the labour force, but they now find themselves at the front of steadily growing lines of workers laid off by companies across the once-booming region. Turned out of factory jobs in countries from Thailand to Indonesia, a growing number of women are forced to look for poorly paid, informal work to survive or even turn to the sex industry for work. While not many precise figures of joblessness among women are available, women workers are among the hardest hit in the new unemployment scourge because they make up 42.7 percent of the labour force in Southeast Asia.

S. Pandey

S Pandey is a multilinguistic journalist and scholar having master degree in sociology and political science. He started his career initially as a teacher later on moved to various dailies and journal. He had edited some texts and also having knowledge in the field of yoga and meditations.
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