Political Science 2225E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: World Cafe, Girl Effect, Heforshe
10 Mar 2020
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Focus on the struggles women in the global south face in the context of development programs. Women have been (1) recipients of aid, (2) objects to be integrated, and (3) actors in the quest to eradicate poverty. Social construction, beliefs, norms, practices and social structures that privilege men and boys. Gender sensitive ways of thinking and behaviour. Create opportunities for women and girls in key sectors. Encourage development actors and policymakers to incorporate strategies to end gender inequality. Wid arose from the liberal tradition, and within the context of three phenomena: mobilization of feminist organizations in the north, un decade for women, ester boserup"s work. Wid focused on improving the status of women by integrating women into the formal economy, and was largely a reaction against the treatment of women only as wives and mothers in the welfare approach. The percy amendment (1973) mandated usaid to implement wid initiatives and.
