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Over the past two decades in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, economic expansion and rapid changes in industrial, agricultural, and information technology have led to a reconstitution of these countries’ social hierarchies, a reconstitution that has also affected class, caste, and (particularly germane to this study) gendered divisions of labor in the rural communities of South Asia.
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Obeng, P. (2014). Introduction. In: Rural Women’s Power in South Asia. Gender, Development and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137320766_1
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