DEVS 100 Chapter 5: Gender & Development
27 Jul 2016
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Women in development", gender and development", mainstreaming gender inequality", the. 1990s: the malthusian perspective is primarily concerned with population changes, discrimination is experienced in essentially the same way by women all over the world. Although both are important in their own right, there is little evidence that gender equality and development are interconnected. False: the sexual division of labour refers to a form of social organization that imposes different and hierarchically-defined roles on men and women. True: the world bank has adopted a malthusian approach in its view that family structures in developing countries represent the biggest obstacle" to modernization. Women and children constitute a majority of new hiv cases and deaths associated with aids. True: one of the major lessons of the debates on gender and development is that emancipatory projects should be pursued primarily at the local level. The percy amendment made it mandatory for the united states agency of international.
