Vocabulary & Core Terms
The general process in which someone or something grows, changes, and becomes more advanced.
Development
The key slogan for this framework is "Include women in the economy!"
WID
This early approach focused on women strictly through their reproductive roles, such as child nutrition, maternal health, and infant vaccines.
Welfare Approach
In traditional systems in this continent, women performed most of the subsistence farming, giving them direct control over food production.
Africa
This specific value calls for upholding human dignity and protecting vulnerable populations from systemic oppression.
Faith
The 1960s development framework that called for the integration and treatment of women's issues in development projects.
Women in Development (WID)
Unlike WID and WAD which target women exclusively, this framework targets both men and women and their relationships.
GAD
Driven by feminist demands for equal rights, this approach introduced legal reforms like "Equal Pay for Equal Work" legislation.
Equity Approach
Multinational corporations in the 1970s and 1980s targeted young women for garment and electronics factory jobs in developing nations primarily for this reason.
Because gender norms made them easier to underpay and less likely to unionize
Nelson Mandela warned that a nation is incomplete if it fails to care for this specific group of people.
its children
The framework that views women as already essential economic actors, but integrated in an exploited or unpaid capacity.
Women and Development (WAD)
This framework argues that the main problem facing poor countries is global economic inequalities and capital exploitation rather than just women's exclusion.
WAD
This approach addresses women's immediate basic needs through income-generating initiatives like micro-credit loans for sewing machines.
Anti-Poverty Approach
To fix city transit systems that only favor 9-to-5 male commuters, GAD planners analyze this type of data to adjust bus routes and safety lighting.
Gender-disaggregated data
Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote that love consists not in doing this, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
gazing at each other
The 1980s approach rooted in socialist-feminist ideology that focuses on unequal power relations and gender dynamics between men and women.
Gender and Development (GAD)
This decade was officially declared by the United Nations as the "Decade for Women," establishing national women's development structures like Zambia's UNIP Women's League.
1975 to 1985
The primary tool of this approach is awareness-raising and legal literacy workshops to position women as active agents of change.
Empowerment Approach
During World War I, thousands of women volunteered to work near active battlefields and in these dangerous industrial facilities.
Munition factories
Integrating gender awareness into national development and academic frameworks reflects these three Christian values.
Faith, Excellence, and Service
The term for women's travel patterns involving multiple stops, such as daycare, markets, and healthcare, before and after work.
trip-chaining
While WID seeks economic efficiency and WAD seeks global equity, GAD's ultimate main goal is this.
true gender equality and social transformation
A key limitation of this approach is that women often become highly informed about systemic issues without seeing immediate improvements in their material conditions.
Empowerment Approach
This Zambian political organization was created during the UN Decade for Women to mobilize and educate women at all levels of society.
UNIP Women's League
Evaluating the limitations of WID and WAD to adopt more effective GAD solutions demonstrates this academic and Christian value.
Excellence