... in prevailing development policies and practices, though not in ways that benefited women. Appropriating women's resources - land, time, food and energy resources, paid and unpaid labor, community networks for maintaining health, political and economic "insurance," and so on - was central to economistic development's most exploitative but "successful" practices. - Sandra Harding Many of the development policies, past and present alike, tend ... than men. There are great disparities between rights of men and of women to take hold of lands, even the women cultivated in that land not any ...

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