CONTENTS
List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Foreword
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: How Prepared Are We to Bridge the Gender Gap? Om Prakash Mathur
1.Gender Perspectives in Addressing Urban Poverty: India's Efforts 1
Nandita Chatterjee
2.Urban Poverty in the 21st Century: A Gender Perspective 13
Rachel Masika and Nicola Chanamuto
3.Urban Development and Urban Poverty Reduction Approaches: Gender Implications and Development Outcomes 29
Rita Afsar
4.Untapped or Unusable Resource: Issues with Female Workforce in Urban India 44
Mahalaya Chatterjee
5.Women's Rights to Adequate Housing, Land, and Property in Urban India 70
Shivani Chaudhry
6.Women's Entitlement to Housing Security in Urban India 90
Darshini Mahadevia
7.Embedding Gender Resource Gap Differential in Planning to Address Issues of Access, Ownership, Safety, and Equality for the Urban Poor 109
Shivani Bhardwaj, Rajashree Ghosh, and Sunita Kotnala
8.Gender and Inclusion: Lessons from the Basic Services for the Urban Poor Sub-Mission of the JNNURM 127
Diana Mitlin, Gayatri Menon, and Sundar Burra
9.Reaching Basic Services to the Urban Poor with a Gender Lens: Experiences of the Self-Employed Women's Association 140
Mirai Chatterjee
10.Malaysian Women in the Workforce and Poverty Eradication: Economic Growth with Equity 149
Shanthi Thambiah
11.The Feminization of Poverty: Lessons from the American Experience 161
Diana M. Pearce
12.Gender, Urban Poverty, and Social Protection: Lessons from Latin America 176
Maxine Molyneux, Nicola Jones, and Maria Stavropoulou
13.Services for Whom? A Gendered Approach to Community Upgrading 194
Giovana Beltrdo
14.The Gendered Dimensions of Urban Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa 213
Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan and Musabi Muteshi
15.Safety Matters: A Report of Women's Safety Audits Conducted in Urban Slums in Madhya Pradesh 223
Asmita Basu
16.Sexual Violence: Interface Between the Public and the Private 240
Flavia Agnes and Audrey D'Mello
About the Contributors 252