This article provides information about the importance of structural perspective on women’s development: Structural perspectives on development are critical of the Women in Development (WID) approach of developmental policies for they start with the basic assumption of conflict in society that makes for competition for resources and power and that manifests itself in struggles of […]
Development: Importance of Structural Perspective on Women’s Development
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Gender Relation Approach for Women’s Development | Sociology
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This article provides information about the gender relation approach for women’s development: These have been critiqued by a group of women who promoted the gender analytical approach to development for being too monolithic to be of much use in practice. At the same time the WID promotion of the category “woman” was also found wanting […]
Importance of Women in Development Policies | Social Development
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This article provides information about the importance of women in development policies: It was only in the 1970s that development policy oriented itself to women as a distinctive category rather than as a residual one. Development planners of the time were faced with the failure of the trickle-down theory, with problems of poverty and unemployment […]