Globally women play a fundamental role in building child human capital and boosting economic development beneria and sen 1982 corner 2008 mammen and paxson 2000 however despite progress in . Specifically medline eric pubmed and google scholar have been explored to retrieve quality studies which have discussed womens role in economic development in different countries in the middle east region some of the common keywords included women economic development women empowerment middle east education fertility and jobs. Womens role in economic development boserup revisited lourdes beneria and gita sen more than a decade has passed since ester boserups book womans role in economic development was published1 probably no single work on the subject of women and development has been quoted as often given the. Abstract pip women in rural india play a dual role producers of goods and services as well as their domestic chores and wives and mothers yet their contribution to economic development has been neglected this study aimed to assess the socioeconomic conditions of 200 rural women respondents from the villages of makanpur 100 women and varsaitpur 100 women. Associate professor womans role in economic development written by ester boserup with a new introduction by nazneen kanji su fei tan and camilla toulmin earthscan reprinted with new