Essays On Gender And Governance - United Nations Development ...

The Impact of Gender Inequality on Governance
adjustments in the states of the global south by international
financial institutions.
In many of these scenarios, as states contend with internal and
external pressures, it is women who are facing the primary risks
and debilitations of shifts and failures in state commitments.
Women are still largely dependent on the state for resources and
services that make it possible for them, at least minimally, to cope
with the discriminatory sexual division of labour, an inequality
that in itself compromises any bid at material autonomy and
accompanying freedoms. Withdrawal of the state from its welfare
functions will burden women still further. While the root causes of
the under-development or uneven development of a state may be
complex, it is pressingly clear that attempts to devise solutions at
any level of policy making within a state, or on issues concerning
its borders, cannot hope to be effective unless the lives and concerns
of women are given serious consideration, and they are drawn in
as public decision makers and political actors to articulate their
anxieties and aspirations, as well as voice the concerns of the
communities with which they are linked.
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