Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2017

THEORITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

N. Padmaja

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 The concept of development and women has envisioned only in the second half of the 19th century, prior to this various s forms of feminists movement has thrived. The development programmes are largely criticized for ignoring gender roles and the impact it has on women. This paper discusses about the evolution of gender planning in development process, chiefly focusing on socio- economic planning, thus taking into consideration women and men. The paper is discusses both on major approaches, to the study Women Empowerment and Perspectives of Women within development. This paper explains how these perspectives have become the most significant feminist development theoretical frameworks, they are women in development (WID) and gender and development (GAD). 

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N. Padmaja, THEORITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-6, Issue-4, April‾2017


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