The Need For Women in Development as an Approach to Third World Problems
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Authors
Hooft, Mila Visser 't
Issue Date
1989
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The chapters that follow attempt to show in an ordered fashion the need,
cause, and theory of Women in Development as an approach to the problem
of Third World development. Chapter I, Facts and Figures, will list a large
amount of information depicting the position of women world wide.
Highlighted are issues of labor, education, health, human rights, and political
rights. It is my intention to have these (rather dry and depressing) figures
convey a sense of urgency and importance with which we have to look at the
situation of women in Third World countries. Chapter 2 will tie those facts
and figures together, and show how women (and men for that matter) are
stuck in a tight grid of interlinked systems, that do not allow room for
personal choice or escape. These interrelations clarify the regression of the
status of women in various areas of life. Chapter 3 will look at how most
programs of and approaches to development have ignored women and their
contribution to the well-being of their society, how that has left the position
of women stagnant while that of men has changed, and how (even worse) it
has affected the position, well-being and workload of women negatively.
Chapter 4 describes the theory of Women in Development as an attitude of
working together in an equal partnership with women (and also men), rather
than as a strict, inflexible set of rules, projections and guidelines delegated by
First World program directors and economists.
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