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What if the Girls Don’t Want to be Businesswomen?: Discursive dissonance in a global policy space

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Rosalind Eyben describes her participation in a high-level international meeting on women's economic empowerment. She examines how the concept of empowerment is being constructed, contested and shaped in international aid policy.

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Notes

  1. I had sought the prior agreement of the organizers to using this experience for the purposes of the present article, stressing I would respect anonymity.

  2. Apparently, there had been some disagreement among the conference organizers concerning the programme structure, some arguing for break out groups.

  3. Part of the reason for this was because economic empowerment, while the principal theme, was not the only one.

  4. To preserve conference participants’ anonymity, no citation is provided for conference documentation from which these and other quotations have been taken.

  5. See http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/Abstract.pdf.

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Eyben, R. What if the Girls Don’t Want to be Businesswomen?: Discursive dissonance in a global policy space. Development 53, 274–279 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.13

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