Gender, Development, and Marriage

摘要: Marriage is now acknowledged as an institution of key relevance to development policy, practice, and research. The vast majority women men get married at least once, in many places life outside marriage almost impossible for either sex contemplate. Yet experienced by very different from women. This because is, all male-dominated societies, imbued with inequality, which husbands fathers rule the roost. Many cultures legal systems still permit control punishment 'unruly' wives, through violence ranging genital mutilation domestic beatings. Within there exist clear roles perform, they create maintain a family. conventional assumption that these are natural divinely ordained determines inequality prevails between I t also helps set terms on participate wider society, colours perceptions political economic contribution make.