This book offers a unique intersectional perspective on gender equality, SDG5. It presents an intersection of gender with caste, class, region, ethnic and sexual identities, and other structural drivers of inequalities in various development sectors. It presents case studies and empirical findings from development practice and policymaking and highlights the challenges to implementing SDG5 in practice. It discusses policies to promote gender equality and prevent violence against women and girls, and women in decision-making and leadership positions. The chapters reinstate that gender equality is possible only if unequal gender norms are transformed to recognize women and girls as independent economic entities and not merely homemakers providing unpaid care. It also analyzes to deconstruct the idea of monolithic masculinity to recognize gender diversity and men's role in providing care. The book shows how much has been achieved, yet how far is also left to go. It is an essential reference point for researchers, policymakers, students, and scholars across gender studies, women's studies, and sociology.

Is a highly relevant and engaging book on SDG5 and its targets Offers a well-argued innovative and intersectional approach throughout the chapters Presents state-of-the-art overview concerning the implementation of SDG5 globally and in India

Autorentext

Saroj Pachauri, M.D., Ph.D., D.P.H., is a public health physician with extensive research on sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV/AIDS, gender, poverty, and youth, was a regional director for South and East Asia, Population Council, has published 5 books, contributed chapters to 20 books, published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, was awarded Grants Gold Medal for securing first position in DPH, and was bestowed the prestigious title of Distinguished Scholar by the Population Council.
Ravi Verma, Ph.D., is Regional Director, International Center for Research on Women. Dr. Verma taught for over two decades at a premier demographic institution, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, prior to joining International Center for Research on Women as a regional director, has published extensively on the intersectional nature of gender in reputed and high impact journals, served as a member, High-level Committee on the Status of Women, during 2013-16 and currently serves as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on 'Gender and Global Health'.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. SDG-5: How real? How sustainable? Reviewing progress of an intersectoral framework.- Chapter 2. Respectful maternity care: A corner stone for improving maternal health.- Chapter 3. Self-care for achieving universal health coverage: Sexual and reproductive health and rights.- Chapter 4. Viewing women and HIV through a gender lens A glimpse into the South and South East Asia Region.-Chapter 5. Gender equality stalled: Re-thinking how will we achieve SDG 5 in light of Covid 19 and other challenges.- Chapter 6. Women and COVID-19: Deepening the gendered fault lines in India's labor markets.- Chapter 7. Children's experiences of sexual violence in Nairobi, Kenya.- Chapter 8. Casting gender in violence against Dalit women: Perpetrators' impunity and constitutional responsibility of State.- Chapter 9. Ladka Ladki Ek Barabar? Gender ideology among young adolescents through adulthood in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 10. Gender, adolescents and SDGs in India: Evidence from UDAYA longitudinal survey.- Chapter 11. Cost of ignoring gender.- Chapter 12. Developing India has an underbelly: The tale of missing daughters.- Chapter 13. Gender equality in India - A distant dream?.