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‘If men and women were to take turns bearing children and if men were to bear the first, no family would have more than two children.’ This is a hard-hitting saying by a down-to-earth woman. One could also say that if men lived the lives of poor rural or urban women for a day, they would quickly endorse a special focus on the condition of women. As things stand, in Pakistan, a special focus on women is often suspected to be driven by a foreign agenda. Even so, one needs to consider the ideological resistance to studying women, and to focus on interventions to improve their social and economic conditions.
The chapter has been published as a paper written by Shahrukh R. Khan and Mehnaz Ahmad in The Lahore Journal of Economics, 1, no. 1, 1996. Thanks are due to Saba Gul Khattak, Pervez Tahir and Tariq Banuri for comments.
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Khan, S.R. (1999). Gender and Structural Adjustment. In: Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373259_8
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