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Peer reviewedStromquist, Nelly P. – Comparative Education, 1998
Survey of 48 multisectoral women-in-development (WID) units in governmental bureaucracies of developing nations indicates that most have educational activities but tend to focus on nonformal education for adult women (literacy, health, vocational education). Their limited contestation of the ideological function of schooling makes these WID units…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Bureaucracy, Developing Nations, Educational Development
