Feminist Institutionalism and Gendered Bureaucracies by Radha Wagle & Soma Pillay & Wendy Wright

Author:Radha Wagle & Soma Pillay & Wendy Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811525889
Publisher: Springer Singapore

5.2.1 Nepal’s Policy Development Trajectory for the Inclusion of Women

After the end of the Rana autocracy in 1950, Nepal’s first democratic government adopted the idea of periodic development plans to accelerate the development process of Nepal. In the early five periodic development plans, activities were mainly gender neutral except for their consideration of the importance of women and women’s welfare in terms of their reproductive and domestic roles (Bhadra, 2001). The activities in this programme included opportunities for women to participate in training programmes related to nutrition, child care, family planning, knitting, sewing and kitchen gardening. Such programmes were designed to help women fulfil their household duties more efficiently and effectively and improve their circumstances.

Reflective Box 5.1

Early development plans cast women as beneficiaries rather than as stakeholders.

Nepal’s early periodic development plans considered women as passive beneficiaries of development rather than as stakeholders in the development of their country (Bhadra, 2001).

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