Gina Crivello will be presenting at a conference organised by the research programme on Global Norms and Heterogeneous Donor Organisations. The conference is organised parallel to the 4th Global Conference of Women Deliver and will bring together emerging work on the creation, contestation and translation of international norms and work on gender equality in development cooperation, specifically:
- The diffusion and translation of gender norms
- Donor organisations and gender equality
- Gender and the SDGs.
Gender Norms and Changing Childhoods: Evidence from Young Lives Study Tracking Inequalities in Girls’ and Boys’ Trajectories
This paper draws on longitudinal survey and qualitative data generated by Young Lives on the life trajectories of children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. In these contexts, as elsewhere, the diffusion and translation of gender norms is intertwined with the diffusion and translation of norms and values around childhood. Global and local processes of economic, social, cultural, environmental change are creating new opportunities and constraints. International development actively intervenes to mould new social norms and expectations around education, work, marriage and fertility in childhood. The gendering of childhood is affected by various ‘modernising’ influences which tend towards universal understandings of child wellbeing, such as rights-based approaches that in turn often underplay gender differences among the young. The paper will argue that gender equality norms are relevant across the life course, such that gender shapes children’s lives and their pathways to adulthood in crucial, though complex, ways.
Gina Crivello will be presenting at a conference organised by the research programme on Global Norms and Heterogeneous Donor Organisations. The conference is organised parallel to the 4th Global Conference of Women Deliver and will bring together emerging work on the creation, contestation and translation of international norms and work on gender equality in development cooperation, specifically:
- The diffusion and translation of gender norms
- Donor organisations and gender equality
- Gender and the SDGs.
Gender Norms and Changing Childhoods: Evidence from Young Lives Study Tracking Inequalities in Girls’ and Boys’ Trajectories
This paper draws on longitudinal survey and qualitative data generated by Young Lives on the life trajectories of children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. In these contexts, as elsewhere, the diffusion and translation of gender norms is intertwined with the diffusion and translation of norms and values around childhood. Global and local processes of economic, social, cultural, environmental change are creating new opportunities and constraints. International development actively intervenes to mould new social norms and expectations around education, work, marriage and fertility in childhood. The gendering of childhood is affected by various ‘modernising’ influences which tend towards universal understandings of child wellbeing, such as rights-based approaches that in turn often underplay gender differences among the young. The paper will argue that gender equality norms are relevant across the life course, such that gender shapes children’s lives and their pathways to adulthood in crucial, though complex, ways.