“Third World” Girls: Gender, Childhood and Colonialism

Girls, girls, girls: Gender composition and female school choice

Gender segregation in employment may be explained by women's reluctance to choose technical occupations. However, the foundations for career choices are laid much earlier. Educational experts claim that female students are doing better in math and science and are more likely to choose these subjects if they are in single-sex classes. One possible explanation is that coeducational settings reinf...

Gender Planning in the Third World: Meeting Practical and Strategic Gender Needs

Recognition of the important role that women play in Third World development has not necessarily been translated into planning practice. This paper describes the development of gender planning, which in identifying that women and men play different roles in Third World society and therefore often have different needs, provides both the conceptual framework and the methodological tools for incor...

Consequences of Marriage of Girls in Childhood

The present paper, studies on the percentage of  consequences of child marriage for girls (under 18 years old) using the approach of social interpretivism. Research data has been collected using a semi-structured interview technique among child-women under 18 years of age in four cities located in Khorasan Razavi province. Thematic analysis method has been used to analyze the data and finally 4...

war and unerdevelopment in third world

war and conflicts within and among third world countries and between them and western countries, despite the end of the cold war, continues to produce fear and threat, violence, insecurity and instability. they are some of the most important causes of pain and misery of peoples, together with immense human, social, economic and developmental costs, with vast and durable consequences, in deepest...

A Third World Perspective