Health, Gender, and Democracy in Nepal

Abstract

Nepal has made progress in raising the living standards of its people over the last 50 years, and yet the country's human development, especially the development of women remains among the lowest in the world. Development outcomes have varied inequitably manifesting themselves in gender, caste, ethnic, and geographic disparities. Women cut across all these categories and within any one group remain the most marginalized sections of the society. Women find themselves in a vicious circle that drives the discrimination against their gender. With low status, they lack the decision-making power to control access to health care and other resources, which perpetuates the low status, with no obvious place to break into the circle.

Citation

Banskota, S.S. (2011), "Health, Gender, and Democracy in Nepal", Wejnert, B. (Ed.) Democracies: Challenges to Societal Health (Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 19), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 161-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0895-9935(2011)0000019014