Caroline Sweetman (ed.) (2000) Gender and lifecycles. Great Britain: Oxfam. (Book Reviews). (book review)

This book in Oxfam's focus on the Gender Series was originally published as single issues of the Journal Gender and Development, which is published by Oxfam. The book links gender issues to the life course of women and men. Its main idea is around the fact that gender based discrimination is experienced differently according to age, generation and status in the family.

In particular, female children and elderly women perform an enormous amount of the world's work, endure appalling abuse of their human rights and receive disproportionately few benefits from development. Writers of the ...

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