Question a)Compare and contrast WID and Gad approaches to involvement of women in development.{12} b)Which of the two approaches have contributed more to the involvement of women in development activities?{8} a)According to Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia‚Women in development (WID) is an approach to development projects that emerged in the 1970s ‚calling for treatment of women’s issues in development projects. Later ‚the Gender and Development (GAD)
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However‚ women are more likely than men to be impoverished. This is called the feminization of poverty.[1] In the 1970s‚ feminists and agents of development came up with an approach to address this problem called the Women in Development [WID] approach. As the years went by‚ this approach was criticized. A new approach emerged out of this critique called Gender and Development [GAD] approach. This paper makes two arguments: that GAD is the best approach to address the inequalities women experience
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Why Development Levels Differ: The Sources of Differential Economic Growth in a Panel of High and Low Income Countries Charles R. Hulten University of Maryland and NBER and Anders Isaksson Research and Statistics Branch United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) September 2007 Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the participants at the NBER Summer Institute 2006‚ as well as Nobuya Haraguchi‚ for helpful comments and suggestions. Any remaining errors are our own. Disclaimer:
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For several hundred years‚ Westerners have been concerned to ‘improve’ gender relations in non-Western societies. What are some of the problems with this project? Gender and development Abstract For hundreds of years‚ the West has been trying to improve gender relations within non-Western societies through helping Third World countries develop. However this development process is firmly rested within the dualistic modernization framework which produces binary oppositions that limit both
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4: Have Gender National Action Plans failed to deliver? Critically review TWO countries .Your discussion should consider governance issues as well as suggest strategies that can improve gender representation / participation in politics? 1. INTRODUCTION Gender Equality is the basic principle of democracy and an important parameter for sustainable development. Since the establishment
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Gender shapes the lives of all people in all societies. The term ‘gender’ refers to the social construction of female and male identity. It can be defined as more than biological differences between men and women. It includes the ways which those differences‚ whether real or perceived‚ have been valued‚ used and relied upon to classify women and men and to assign roles and expectations to them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_and_development). Gender influences our lives‚ the schooling we receive
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| Write your own definition of the terms “sex” and “gender”. Sex and gender are two separate but often interlinked concepts. Sex can be defined as the biological and physiological features which differentiate between male or female‚ such as males having testicles and females having ovaries. There are however more than two sexes‚ some people are born with both genitalia and are referred to as being intersexed. Gender is socially constructed and refers to the learned behaviours‚ practices
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scholar’s perspective over the notion of participation as “the poor define poverty based on their own analysis of their reality‚ by including aspects they consider to be significant. (Stewart et al‚ 2003). There have been increasing numbers of poor women in the world who dominate the total world population‚ particularly in Asia and Sub-Saharan regions (United Nations‚ 1996‚ p. 37). They are often marginalised and discriminated upon; the situation which partially occurred due to the traditional patriarchal
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Gender identity is an aspect of the developing self-concept. The main gender difference in early childhood is boys’ greater aggressiveness. Girls tend to be more empathic and social and less prone to problem behavior. Cognitive differences appear early. This paper will focus on three gender development theories: social cognitive‚ gender-schema‚ psychosexual. Social Cognitive Theory Human isolation on the basis of gender is affects virtually every aspect of a person’s daily life. The social
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women’s participation in economic development is essential not only for achieving social justice but also for reducing poverty. World wide experience shows clearly that supporting a stronger role for women contributes to economic growth‚ it improves child survival and overall family health and it reduces fertility thus helping to slow population growth rates. In short investing in women is central to sustainable development. And yet‚ despite these known returns‚ women still face many barriers in contributing
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