GS211 Lecture Notes - Modernization Theory, Radical Feminism, Paradigm Shift
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Women in development (wid) is a concept closely tied to the liberal modernization theory, and restructuring development programs. Wid argued that the modernization theory would only benefit a specific group of women, the wealthy western, and hurt the third world women. It undercut and exploited women in the labour force by dividing the labour based upon sex. Gender and development can be classified as radical feminism, and a change of the women"s emancipation. It tried to readdress the problem and used gender analysis to further develop the view, focusing on the interaction of men and women in development processes. There was a large paradigm shift from wid to gad, an approach to development projects that emerged in the 1970s, calling for treatment of women"s issues in development projects. Later, gad proposed more emphasis on gender relations rather than seeing women"s issues in isolation contrasting wid.
