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Gender Equality For Women

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The United Nations had adopted March 8 as International Women’s Day in 1975 during the International Women’s Year and since then this day is celebrated all over the world as Women’s Day. The most conspicuous highlights of this day are the many different women specific ‘packages’ offered by public and private organizations. To name a few, heavy discounts on beauty salon services, discounts on kitchen appliances, restaurants offering tempting fares to relieve the woman from the drudgery of cooking. The focus of these issues cannot but lead us to the question “why are certain roles and duties considered to be women specific?” This leads us to a discussion on gender.
What is Gender?
As we have seen that only certain roles and duties are considered …show more content…

Achieving gender equality does not mean than women and men will become the same. There are two aspects of equality between women and men ------ quantitative and a qualitative aspect.
The quantitative aspect seeks to achieve equitable representation of women – increasing balance and equality while the qualitative aspect seeks to achieve impartial influence on developmental priorities and outcomes. ‘Equality involves ensuring that the perceptions, interests, needs and priorities of women and men will be given equal weight in planning and decision-making.’
The Commission on the status of Women has been responsible for organizing and following up the world conferences on women in Mexico in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980, Nairobi in 1985, and Beijing in 1995. It was during the Beijing conference in 1995 that the term gender equality was agreed to be …show more content…

For the first time there was a move to consider gender equality as a key element of development. During the this period, women's concerns were first integrated into the development agenda. However there was disappointment at this approach and this led to women’s issues being articulated in national and international forums. Following these events, the women-in-development or the WID movement was started. The movement affirmed that giving women greater access to resources would contribute to an equitable and efficient development process. Women in Development (WID) is a development approach based on the assumption that women are ‘left out’ of development and need special projects to ‘integrate’ them. Gender relations and power inequalities are not addressed, and women’s participation is often passive. [Commonwealth

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