03786nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10690516 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 130402s2013 dcuab sb 000 0 eng d 2013008678 9780821398623 9780821398920 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)843538146 HQ1075 .M866 2013eb 305.3 23 On norms and agency [electronic resource] : conversations about gender equality with women and men in 20 countries / Ana Mar�ia Mu�noz Boudet, Patti Petesch, and Carolyn Turk ; with Ang�elica Thumala. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2013. xix, 207 p. : col. ill., col. map. Directions in development. Human development Includes bibliographical references. Foreword / RACHEL KYTE -- Foreword / JUDITH RODIN -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Introduction: the norms of power and the power of norms -- The study approach -- Methodology of the study -- Discussing and researching gender equality : a brief introduction to the primary study concepts -- Creating and enforcing gender through norms, roles and beliefs -- Changing norms -- Overview of chapters -- References -- Gender norms -- The rules we live by : gender norms and ideal images -- Normative frameworks for household gender inequalities -- The good girl, the good boy -- Community-level views of gender norms -- References -- Negotiating the norms that bind : a winding road -- The quiet relaxing and changing of norms -- Timing is all: negotiating opportunities and gender-specific responsibilities -- Intergenerational transmission of the possibility of change -- Gender norms in transition -- "A woman should be beaten if she deserves punishment" -- A. extent and forms of domestic violence -- B. causes and consequences of domestic violence -- References -- Having and making choices -- Strategic life decisions : who has the final say? -- Investing in education : why should girls and boys go to school? -- Why should I leave school? : not my choice! -- From school to work : getting the first job -- A. You say, I say: the weight of adult voices on job decisions -- "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage" -- What is mine is yours : asset control and decision-making -- When does choice mean agency? -- References -- Empowerment -- What drives agency? : what crushes it? -- Step by step : climbing the "ladder of power and freedom" -- Perceptions of factors shaping agency -- Combinations of mobility factors -- Men's and women's interdependent agency and gender norm change -- References -- Structures of opportunity and structures of constraint -- Community factors that fuel agency -- Whose jobs? -- It takes a village : local economic dynamism and empowerment -- Impact of laws and local civic action on empowermen -- Change women need -- References -- Final thoughts -- Appendix a methodological note -- References. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Sex role. Sex discrimination against women. Women's rights. Electronic books. local Mu�noz Boudet, Ana Mar�ia. Petesch, Patti. Turk, Carolyn. Thumala, Ang�elica. ebrary, Inc. Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10690516 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 26586 26586