Occasional Papers
The Call to a New World Yet to Be: MCC Gender and Development Project
by Debra Simpson
| "Gender issues are about values, values that uphold both sexes as equal in God's (and our) eyes and respect both as having their own strengths and weaknesses. These values generate processes which lead to the evolution, not the destruction, of the identity of each gender."
--Julie Chaudhuri, MCC India staff |
MCC Occasional Paper, No. 25
September 1998
MCC Occasional Papers are a publication of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). This series features manuscripts by MCC volunteers and staff on topics related to MCC programs and concerns. The papers do not necessarily reflect official MCC policy.
About the author:
Debra Simpson has worked with gender issues as part of MCC assignments for seven years. Born in Quebec, she studied political studies and law at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and practiced law for four years before taking an MCC assignment in 1991. She worked for three years in Kenya, where she was seconded to a Kenyan research organization as staff for a gender information project. From 1994 to 1998, she staffed MCC's Gender and Development Project from a base in Geneva, Switzerland. She is married to Timothy Wichert, and is the mother of two daughters. She currently lives in Virgil, Ontario, and works with the MCC Ontario office.
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