Resource: Rural Women in the Developing World by Khushi Kabir

The Bangladeshi campaigner for lifting women out of poverty says village life has been wrongly idealised. It is not a harmonious whole with the elders looking after the interests of all the villagers alike, without prejudices of class or gender. Things are improving for women and girls, she says, but there is a long way to go. She chooses five books that might help. http://fivebooks.com/interviews/khushi-kabir-on-rural-women-developing-world