Professor Donald Kerchis
Political Science 300
1st November 2014
2nd 4-Page Paper
Women and Development Contrary to popular belief, women have had a significant yet unacknowledged impact in the development of this world. Many great authors have brought this issue to light with various publications, but none quite like Howard Handelman and Joseph N. Weatherby in The Challenge of Third World Development and The Other World respectively. In chapters 5 and 4 titled Women And Development of these publications, Handelman and Weatherby respectively, explore the unnoticed impact women have had in developing the world, the challenges they have faced trying to do so and how much as well as in which sector of a nation have they had the most impact. In this paper, I am going to explore these issues with Handelman and Weatherby as well as give you my thoughts on the arguments they make regarding this topic as well as test the validity of these arguments in real world scenarios. So, without further ado, let us jump into these chapters. They both start off their respective chapters by …show more content…
According to them, there are three types of women that are usually involved in Political Organizations and they are: 1. Feminist and middle class women, 2. Less wealthy women disillusioned with leftist beliefs and 3. Working class women with humans rights questions. Now, some of the challenges women face regarding Political Organizations include: The fact that women have to play the “super-mother” to be heard as well as the fact that women fair worst under right-wing authoritarian regimes. Women have band together in many instances and made these Political Organizations to have their voices heard and with these initiatives come different challenges they have to face, some of which are listed