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'''Devaki Jain''' (born 1933) is an Indian economist and writer, who has worked mainly in the field of [[feminist economics]]. In 2006 she was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]], the third-highest civilian award from Government of India, for her contribution to social justice and the empowerment of women.<ref>{{cite news | last = Staff reporter | title = 53 receive Padma awards from President | url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article3171500.ece | work = [[The Hindu]] | publisher = [[The Hindu Group]] | date = 30 March 2006 }}</ref>

== Early life ==
Jain was born in [[Mysore]], the daughter of [[M. A. Sreenivasan]], a minister in the Princely State of Mysore and was also [[M. A. Sreenivasan|Dewan of Gwalior]].

== Education ==
Jain studied at various convent schools in India. Having graduated from Mysore University in 1953 with three gold medals for the first rank
in Mathematics, English, and Overall Performance she later <ref name="auto">https://www.cepal.org/mujer/noticias/noticias/1/43711/JAIN_CV.pdf {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> attended [[St Anne's College, Oxford]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About Devaki Jain - devakijain.in |url=http://devakijain.in/index.php/about-devaki-jain |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=devakijain.in}}</ref> Having graduated from [[Oxford University|Oxford]] with a degree in [[Philosophy, Politics, and Economics]], she then taught economics at [[Delhi University]] until 1969.<ref name=":0" />

== United Nations and international networking ==
[[File:Debaki Jain in June 2011.jpg|thumb|Devaki Jain in June 2011]]
Through working on her book, ''Women in India'', she involved herself in feminist issues. She took an active part in writing, lecturing, networking, building, leading, and supporting women.

Jain was founder of the [[Institute of Social Studies Trust]] (ISST) in New Delhi and served as director until 1994. She has also worked in the field of women's employment and edited the book ''Indian Women'' for India's International Women's Year.

[[Gandhian philosophy]] has influenced Jain's work and life. In line with this philosophy, her academic research has focused on issues of equity, democratic decentralization, people-centered development, and women's rights. She has worked for local, national, and international women's movements. She currently lives in [[Bangalore]], India.

Jain has traveled extensively as a participant in many networks and forums. As Chair of the Advisory Committee on Gender for the [[United Nations]] Centre in Asia-Pacific, she has visited numerous countries, including most Pacific and Caribbean Island. In Africa, she has visited Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Benin and Senegal, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoir, South Africa and Botswana. Along with [[Julius Nyerere]], she had the privilege of meeting with and discussing the visions and concerns of African leaders. She is also a member of the erstwhile South Commission founded by Nyerere.

She was a member of the Advisory Panel set up by the [[United Nations Development Programme]] (UNDP) to advise on the preparation of the 1997 Human Development Report on Poverty and for the 2002 Report on Governance. She was a member of the Eminent Persons Group of the [[Graça Machel]] Study Group appointed by the UN to study the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children.

In ''Women, Development, and the UN—A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice'' she shows how women's contributions have changed and shaped developments and practices at the UN. She introduces the term "[[feminization of poverty]]" from the feminist economist point of view. "'Feminization of poverty,'" Jain explains, "was used to describe three distinct elements: that women have a higher incidence of poverty than men, that women's poverty is more severe than that of men, that a trend toward greater poverty among women is associated with rising rates of female-headed households."(Jain 2005) According to her, "feminization of work" connotes low-quality, lowly-paid work. Jain argues that "feminization" devalues the increased presence of women.<ref>Jain, Devaki. 2005. Women, Development, and the UN – A Six-Year Quest for Equality and Justice Bloomington: Indiana University Press. {{ISBN|0-253-34697-5}}</ref>

== Academic life ==
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Devaki Jain was awarded a fellowship to the Scandinavian Institute for Asian Studies Copenhagen, in the year 1983 to lecture in 9 Universities in the Region on Gender & Poverty.<ref name="auto"/> She was awarded an [[Honorary Doctorate]] (1999) from the [[University of Durban-Westville]], [[Republic of South Africa]]. She also received the Bradford Morse Memorial Award (1995) from the UNDP at the Beijing World Conference. She was a visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, [[University of Sussex]] (1993) and a Fulbright Senior Fellow affiliated both with [[Harvard University]] and [[Boston University]] (1984). She was also a Fellow at the Government of [[Karnataka]]'s State Planning Board, a member of the UGC's Standing Committee on Women's Studies, and a member of the [[South Centre (organization)|South Commission]], when chaired by [[Julius K. Nyerere|Julius Nyerere]]. In the academic year 2013–14, she was Plumer Visiting Fellow at her alma mater, [[St Anne's College, Oxford]].

== Personal life ==
She was married to the [[Gandhi]]an economist [[Lakshmi Chand Jain]] from 1966 until his death in 2010. She has two children, including [[Sreenivasan Jain]], the ex managing editor of [[NDTV]].<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/devaki-not-your-average-jain/story-NHLVOENEe4A9wHA9tLo5XN.html|title = Devaki, No plain Jain|author=Deepanjana Pal|publisher=[[The Hindustan Times]]|website=hindustantimes.com|date=October 10, 2020|access-date=October 11, 2020}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
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=== Books ===
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = Indian women | publisher = Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India | location = New Delhi, India | year = 1975 | oclc = 1646453 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | last2 = Singh | first2 = Nalini | last3 = Chand | first3 = Malini | author-link2 = Nalini Singh | title = Women's quest for power: five Indian case studies | url = https://archive.org/details/womensquestforpo0000jain | url-access = registration | publisher = Vikas Publishing | location = Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad, Delhi, India | year = 1980 | isbn = 9780706910216 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | last2 = Banerjee | first2 = Nirmala | title = Tyranny of the household: investigative essays on women's work | publisher = Vikas Publishing | location = Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad, Delhi, India | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780706927856 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | last2 = Eck | first2 = Diana L. | author-link2 = Diana L. Eck | title = Speaking of faith: cross-cultural perspectives on women, religion, and social change | publisher = Women's Press | location = London | year = 1986 | isbn = 9780704340169 }}
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = For women to lead - ideas and experiences from Asia: a study on the legal and political impediments to gender equality in governance | publisher = National Commission for Women (India) | location = New Delhi, India | date = October 1997 | oclc = 42716773 }}
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = The vocabulary of women's politics | publisher = Friedrich Ebert Stiftung | location = New Delhi | year = 2000 | isbn = 9788174400536 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | last2 = Rajput | first2 = Pam | title = Narratives from the women's studies family: recreating knowledge | publisher = Sage Publications | location = New Delhi Thousand Oaks, California | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780761996958 }}
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = Women, development, and the UN a sixty-year quest for equality and justice | publisher = Indiana University Press | location = Bloomington, Indiana | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780253218193 }}
* Jain, Devaki (September 2018). Close Encounters of Another Kind . Women and Development Economics. SAGE Publisher India. {{ISBN|9789352807727}} <ref>{{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Devaki |title=Close Encounters of Another Kind . Women and Development Economics |date=September 2018 |publisher=SAGE Publisher India |isbn=9789352807727 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljJqDwAAQBAJ}}</ref>
* Jain, Devaki (19 March 2018). The Journey of a Southern Feminist. SAGE Publisher India. {{ISBN|9789352806232}} <ref>{{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Devaki |title=The Journey of a Southern Feminist |date=19 March 2018 |publisher=SAGE Publisher India |isbn=9789352806232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ka1SDwAAQBAJ}}</ref>
* Jain, Devaki (October 2020). The Brass Notebook: A Memoir. Speaking Tiger. {{ISBN|9789389958676}} <ref>{{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Devaki |title=The Brass Notebook: A Memoir |date=October 2020 |publisher=Speaking Tiger |isbn=9789389958676 |url=https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/shop/non-fiction/the-brass-notebook-a-memoir/ |access-date=7 October 2020 |archive-date=9 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009012000/https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/shop/non-fiction/the-brass-notebook-a-memoir/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Book chapters ===
* {{Cite journal | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = Indian women: some reflections on two sector analysis | journal = Social Change | publisher = Sage | date = March–June 1975 | volume = 5 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 17–20 | doi = 10.1177/0049085719750103 | url = http://sch.sagepub.com/content/by/year | access-date = 15 August 2014 | archive-date = 25 July 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140725110357/http://sch.sagepub.com/content/by/year | url-status = dead }}
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | contribution = Measuring women's work: some methodological issues | editor-last1 = Jahan | editor-first1 = Rounaq | editor-last2 = Papanek | editor-first2 = Hanna | editor-last3 = Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs | editor-link1 = Rounaq Jahan | title = Women and development: perspectives from South and South East Asia | publisher = South Asia Books | location = Columbia USA | year = 1979 | isbn = 9780836405965 }}
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | contribution = The culture of the poor | editor-last1 = Peeradina | editor-first1 = Saleem | editor-last2 = Braganza | editor-first2 = Karuna M. | title = Cultural forces shaping India | publisher = All India Association for Christian Higher Education: S.G. Wasani for Macmillan India | location = New Delhi, India | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780333909720 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | contribution = Healing the wounds of development | editor-last1 = Conway | editor-first1 = Jill K. | editor-last2 = Bourque | editor-first2 = Susan C. | editor-link1 = Jill Ker Conway | title = The Politics of women's education: perspectives from Asia, Africa, and Latin America | pages = 45–58 | publisher = University of Michigan Press | location = Ann Arbor | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780472083282 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | contribution = Democratising culture | editor-last = Vohra | editor-first = N. N. | editor-link = Narinder Nath Vohra | title = Culture, democracy, and development in South Asia | publisher = Shipra Publications | location = New Delhi | year = 2001 | isbn = 9788175410701 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | contribution = Feminist networks, peoples movements, and alliances: learning from the ground | editor-last1 = Ricciutelli | editor-first1 = Luciana | editor-last2 = Miles | editor-first2 = Angela | editor-last3 = McFadden | editor-first3 = Margaret H. | title = Feminist politics, activism and vision: local and global challenges | publisher = Inanna Publications and Education Zed Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan | location = Toronto London New York New York | year = 2004 | isbn = 9781842773505 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | contribution = A view from the south: a story of intersections | editor-last1 = Fraser | editor-first1 = Arvonne S. | editor-last2 = Tinker | editor-first2 = Irene | editor-link1 = Arvonne Fraser | editor-link2 = Irene Tinker | title = Developing power: how women transformed international development | publisher = Feminist Press at the City University of New York | location = New York | year = 2004 | isbn = 9781558614840 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/developingpowerh0000unse }}
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | contribution = Quest for healing | editor-last1 = Menon | editor-first1 = Sangeetha | editor-last2 = Sinha | editor-first2 = Anindya | editor-last3 = Clayton | editor-first3 = Philip | editor-last4 = Narasimha | editor-first4 = Roddam | editor-last5 = Sreekantan | editor-first5 = B.V. | editor-link2 = Anindya Sinha | editor-link3 = Philip Clayton (theologian) | editor-link4 = Roddam Narasimha | title = Science and beyond: cosmology, consciousness, and technology in the Indic traditions | publisher = National Institute of Advanced Studies | location = Bangalore, India | year = 2004 | isbn = 9788187663560 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | contribution = A view from the south: a story of intersections | editor-last1 = Harrison | editor-first1 = Faye V. | editor-link1 = Faye Harrison | title = Resisting racism and xenophobia: global perspectives on race, gender, and human rights | publisher = AltaMira Press | location = Walnut Creek, California | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780759104822 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/resistingracismx0000unse }}
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | contribution = Introduction: feminist theory and practice | editor-last1 = Ganesh | editor-first1 = Kamala | editor-last2 = Thakkar | editor-first2 = Usha | title = Culture and the making of identity in contemporary India | pages = 184–201 | publisher = Sage Publications | location = New Delhi Thousand Oaks, California | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780761933076 }}

=== Journal articles ===
* {{Cite journal | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = Development theory and practice: insights emerging from women's experience | journal = Economic and Political Weekly | volume = 25 | issue = 27 | pages = 1454–1455 | date = 7 July 1990 | jstor = 4396465 }}
* {{Cite journal | last1= Jain | first1 = Devaki | last2 = Desai | first2 = Sonalde | title = Maternal employment and changes in family dynamics: the social context of women's work in rural South India | journal = Population and Development Review | volume = 20 | issue = 1 | pages = 115–136 | doi = 10.2307/2137632 | date = March 1994 | jstor = 2137632 }}
* {{Cite journal | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = Valuing work: time as a measure | journal = Economic and Political Weekly | volume = 31 | issue = 43 | pages = WS46–WS57 | date = 26 October 1996 | jstor = 4404708 }}
* {{Cite journal | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = For whom the bell tolls: democracy and development in South Asia | journal = Cambridge Review of International Affairs | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | pages = 299–310 | doi = 10.1080/09557570220151335a | date = 2002 | s2cid = 144930997 }}
* {{Cite journal | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = To be or not to be: problems in locating women in public policy | journal = Economic and Political Weekly | volume = 42 | issue = 8 | pages = 691–696 | date = 24 February – 2 March 2007 | jstor = 4419285 }}

=== Papers ===
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = Women and trade liberalization - South Asia's opportunities, workshop on global trading practices and poverty alienation in South Asia | publisher = UNIFEM-SIDA (Swedish International Development Authority) Conference | location = New Delhi, India | year = 1995 }} [http://nirantar.net/Website/SHG_%20qual_%20eng.pdf Cited here: page 133, ref. 29.]
* {{cite book | last1 = Jain | first1 = Devaki | last2 = Abzug | first2 = Bella |author-link2 = Bella Abzug | title = Women's leadership and the ethics of development (Gender in Development Monograph Series #4) | publisher = UNDP United Nations Development Programme | location = New York | date = August 1996 }} [http://www.devakijain.com/pdf/jain_womenleadership.pdf Link.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813235518/http://www.devakijain.com/pdf/jain_womenleadership.pdf |date=13 August 2014 }}
* {{cite book | last = Jain | first = Devaki | title = Panchayat Raj: women changing governance (Gender in Development Monograph Series #5) | publisher = UNDP United Nations Development Programme | location = New York | date = September 1996 }} [http://www.devakijain.com/pdf/jain_panchayatraj.pdf Link.]

=== Lectures ===
* ''Nuancing globalisation or Mainstreaming the downstream or Reforming Reform'' – Nita Barrow Memorial Lecture, University of West Indies, Barbados, November 1999
* ''Development as if Women Mattered - Can Women Build a new Paradigm?'' OECD, Paris, 1983
* ''Indian Women; Today and Tomorrow'', Padmaja Naidu Memorial Lecture, Published by [[Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]], New Delhi, 1982
* ''Gender-apartheid as a hindrance to development: Women and the Global Economy,'' A public conference convened by Alliance Sud and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) 15 November 2005, Berne (Switzerland)
* ''Women's Rights between the UN Human Rights Regime and Free Trade Agreements'', Globalising Women's Rights: Confronting unequal development between the, UN rights framework and WTO-trade agreements, Bonn, 19–22 May 2004
* ''Are We Knowledge Proof? Development as Waste'' speech delivered at Lovraj Kumar Memorial Lecture, 26 September, New Delhi (Reprinted in Wastelands News, Vol. 19(1), August–October 2003, "Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development", New Delhi, pp. 19–30
* ''Through the looking glass of poverty,'' Paper presented at New Hall Cambridge, United kingdom, 19 October 2001.
* ''Valuing Women- Signals From The Ground'' (Broad Theme: Cultural Diversity And Universal Norms) Opening Session: 1 June 2001, For The University Of Maryland, USA
* ''The Torture of Women: Some Dimensions'', paper presented at VII International Symposium on Torture, September 1999, New

=== Other ===
She contributed the piece "A condition across caste and class" to the 1984 anthology ''[[Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology]]'', edited by [[Robin Morgan]].<ref name="global">{{cite web |url=https://catalog.vsc.edu/lscfind/Record/154795/TOC#tabnav |title=Table of Contents: Sisterhood is global |publisher=Catalog.vsc.edu |access-date=2015-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208065459/https://catalog.vsc.edu/lscfind/Record/154795/TOC#tabnav |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Feminist economics]]
* [[List of feminist economists]]

==References==
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== Further reading ==
* ''The needs of the poor come first''.Interview with Devaki Jain by Monte Leach. In: Share International, Issue March 1998 [https://web.archive.org/web/20100613030908/http://share-international.org/archives/hunger_poverty/hp_mlneeds-poor.htm online]

== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140904043747/http://www.devakijain.com/ The Devaki Jain Website (with a comprehensive bibliography)]
* [http://www.casablanca-dream.net The Website of the ''Casablanca Dreamers''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070618090620/http://www.casablanca-dream.net/ |date=18 June 2007 }}
* [http://www.iaffe.org Home page] [[International Association for Feminist Economics|International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)]]
* [http://www.feministeconomics.org Home page] ''[[Feminist Economics (journal)|Feminist Economics]]'' journal

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