Women, Development, and the UN - 9780253218193

Women, Development, and the UNA Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice\nAuthor(s): Devaki Jain\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253218193, 978-0253218193\nSynopsis\n\""Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the worldand vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and self-respecting woman should read.\"" Gloria Steinem\n \""Devaki Jain's book nurtures your optimism in this terrible war-torn decade by describing how women succeeded in empowering both themselves and the United Nations to work toward a global leadership inspired by human dignity.\"" Fatema Mernissi\n In Women, Development, and the UN, internationally noted development economist and activist Devaki Jain traces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United Nations from the time of its foun.