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| Title: | What Has Happened to Gender in Regional Development Analysis? Examples from KwaZulu/Natal |
| Authors: | Todes, Alison Posel, Dori |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 25 |
| Pages: | 58-78 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | regional development women Women's Issues Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/246/OBJ/download |
| Abstract: | In South Africa the creation of new political regions in terms of the 1993 Constitution, and concomitant pressures towards devolution, have opened new space for regional development strategies. Regional development strategies potentially are an important arena in which socioeconomic policies may be forged. Despite the new significance of these strategies, and the commitment to redress gender inequalities at national level, gender considerations are not fully incorporated into policy thinking. This paper traces the discourse of regional development, noting its gender blindness, and, using work on regional development within KwaZulu/Natal as an example, it points to lacunae from a feminist perspective. The paper analyses a recent report, published in 1993, which draws together sectoral and spatial studies of the KwaZulu/Natal region. The report proposes strategies coupling both growth and redistribution and focuses largely on small business promotion in a number of sectors, and to a lesser extent on smallholder agriculture and the informal sector, sectors in which women predominate. The analysis of this report is preceded by a description of the discourse of regional development and the basis for its gender blindness, and an outline of the main windows for conceptualizing gender within regional development. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
