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Gender and development is an interdisciplinary
field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic
development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background,
and other socio-political identities. A strictly economic approach to
development views a country's development in quantitative terms such as job
creation, inflation control, and high employment – all of which aim to improve
the ‘economic wellbeing’ of a country and the subsequent quality of life for
its people. In terms of economic development, quality of life is defined as
access to necessary rights and resources including but not limited to quality
education, medical facilities, affordable housing, clean environments, and low
crime rate.
Gender and development considers many of these
same factors; however, gender and development emphasizes efforts towards
understanding how multifaceted these issues are in the entangled context of
culture, government, and globalization. Accounting for this need, gender and
development implements ethnographic research, research that studies a specific culture or group of
people by physically immersing the researcher into the environment and daily routine
of those being studied, in order to comprehensively understand how development policy and practices affect the everyday life of
targeted groups or areas.
Women in Development, Gender and
Development, Women and Development, The Human Rights and Gender, Environment
and Development paradigms have shaped the course of development literature by
taking into account both women 's and men’s involvement with and in development.
These five central perspectives have attempted to deconstruct gender bias in
the economic, the social and the political sphere in order to show how
development affects women and men in the global south. In the 1970s, WID came
into use after Ester Boserup recognized that women had been excluded from
economic development, resulting in them being more disadvantaged than men.
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