Women in Development: A critical analysis
In the early 1970s a general disenchantment with development efforts in Third World countries led to a search for alternative development strategies and a growing awareness that women, like the poor, were peripheral to the development efforts of major aid donors. In 1972 the United Nations designate...
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| author | Koczberski, Gina |
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| description | In the early 1970s a general disenchantment with development efforts in Third World countries led to a search for alternative development strategies and a growing awareness that women, like the poor, were peripheral to the development efforts of major aid donors. In 1972 the United Nations designated 1975 as International Women's Year, highlighting the need to involve women in issues of economic development. During the past 20 years the 'women in development' approach, which seeks to recognise and integrate women in aid policies and programmes, has been incorporated into the aid practice of most development agencies. This paper traces the efforts of large aid agencies over the past two decades to integrate women into their aid programmes and discusses the main limitations and weaknesses of the WID approach. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-144442017-01-30T11:43:52Z Women in Development: A critical analysis Koczberski, Gina women - gender and development - Third World women - WID - GAD In the early 1970s a general disenchantment with development efforts in Third World countries led to a search for alternative development strategies and a growing awareness that women, like the poor, were peripheral to the development efforts of major aid donors. In 1972 the United Nations designated 1975 as International Women's Year, highlighting the need to involve women in issues of economic development. During the past 20 years the 'women in development' approach, which seeks to recognise and integrate women in aid policies and programmes, has been incorporated into the aid practice of most development agencies. This paper traces the efforts of large aid agencies over the past two decades to integrate women into their aid programmes and discusses the main limitations and weaknesses of the WID approach. 1998 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14444 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | women - gender and development - Third World women - WID - GAD Koczberski, Gina Women in Development: A critical analysis |
| title | Women in Development: A critical analysis |
| title_full | Women in Development: A critical analysis |
| title_fullStr | Women in Development: A critical analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women in Development: A critical analysis |
| title_short | Women in Development: A critical analysis |
| title_sort | women in development: a critical analysis |
| topic | women - gender and development - Third World women - WID - GAD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14444 |