Why Women, Let Everybody Claim and Own the Stakes

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Abstract: Forging an organic connection between nature and women has an inadvertent outcome - some issues become women’s issues and are either sidelined in the planning process or are seen as the exclusive domain of women, without proper understanding of entrenched power asymmetries between men and women.

The author is Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.