Gender And Women's Role In Economic Development

All generations are born, develops, comes to power in the culture, declines and dies, it plays a part in forcing society towards a phase of growth, maturing, decline, destruction, and then regrowth. As it is the Reality that the stage of death and revival is important to sustain the strength of the society (Brett & Kate, 2012). Generally in developing countries the power of males over females is common and often performs on the basis for gender relationships. Men as a group have been supposed to use power over women. In real there are many ways in which men experience powerlessness irrespective of their socio economic individuality. This suggests that men are not always dominant (Esplen, 2006). Societies sometimes set up stiff structures not

Provoked by the 1970 release of Esther Boserup’s then influential book Women’s Role in Economic Development, academics and the development community began to see women in a new light. The previously focus on women’s role in family welfare, characteristic of the 1950s and 1960s, shifted to women’s economic role and their active participation in development. The term “women in development” (WID) came to cover this new model (Moser 1993).

By the 1980s, the limits of the WID approach had become obvious, and “gender and development” (GAD) exchanged WID as the dominant pattern. GAD open a new way of undertaking women’s subordination by probing socially and historically constructed gender relations between women and men, rather than treating women in separation from men (Moser 1993).

Main changes in the professional and economic structures of most developed countries began in the 1970s and got full force in the 1980s and 1990s. These changes are prominent to a vibrant reconfiguration of work and labor markets which, while felt more strongly in developed countries, are also starting to flow out to developing countries. (Bannon & Correia,

While age can be used as a substitution of memberships of different generations the time span between one generation and others varies greatly. Proceeding through different life stages involves different characteristics meanings and consequences (Chant, 1998)

In Barker and Ricardo’s (2005) opinion, change is happening even without program involvements and policy initiatives to promote it. Increased education for girls and women around the world is clearly challenging gender norms. Structural changes mean that economic advantages of men compared to women have tough. Men in various settings in the world confirm the importance of women’s education and income and perceive that these are good for families. And many men and boys are changing how they assess women. However, this change goes hand in hand with traditional gender hierarchies. Men, particularly young men are accepting change but at the same time hanging on to traditional views. (Bannon & Correia,