FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE(REVIEWER)

Feminist Perspective:

 Advocacy of Women’s Rights on the grounds of Political, Social, and Ecomomic Equality to Men.
 The feminist perspective has much in common with the conflict perspective. However, instead
of focusing broadly on the unequal distribution of power and resources, feminist sociology
studies power in its relation to gender.

Feminist Perspective have 3 waves:

First Wave:

 First wave of Feminism came about during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
 Women wanted the same opportunities as men, most notable – The right to vote. Thus the
Women’s Suffrage movement was born.
 The first Women's Rights convention in the United States, it was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in
Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848. At that conference, activist and leader
Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted The Declaration of Sentiments, which called for women's
equality and suffrage.
 Suffrage- The right to vote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton- A chief philosopher of the woman's Rights and Leader of Suffrage
Weslayan chapel in Seneca Falls- Approved women's right to vote on July 19 and 20, 1848.

Second Wave:

 The second wave feminism movement took place in the 1960s and 1970s and focused on issues
of equality and discrimination.
-Discrimination in workplace
-Equal pay
-Society sees women as weak

Third Wave:

 Third wave of feminism came during the 1990s– embraced the idea that women can be
assertive and powerful.
 Third wave feminist theory critiques generalizations about sex and gender.
 Pantay na yung pag tinging ng society sa mga kababaihan

Women in Development
  is an approach that has been used to understand and address the roles of women in the global
development process, and it is meant to give special attention to the Women's roles. And WID
approach was introduced primarily by "American Liberal Feminist" and focuses on egalitarianism
especially in terms of economic participation and access.
-Focus in the global development process

-WID helps achieve better life

-Liberal Feminist- Looking at the equal treatment of women, equal access to education, equal pay and
economic job sex.

-Macro

Women and Development

 The WAD approach comes from the perspective that equality will be essential to improving
women's positions. And its focus was to "explain the relationship between women and the
process of capitalist development in terms of material conditions that contribute to their
exploitation".

-Individual

-Micro

-WAD's view is that women always participate and contribute to the development of our economy,
whether private or public.

-WAD looks that Women's is important

-Babae ako, pero di babae lang

Gender and Development

The GAD (Gender and Development) approach focuses on the socially constructed basis of differences
between men and women and emphasizes the need to challenge existing gender roles.

-Removing of the comparison of women or men

-Focus impact development between women and man

-GAD aims for men and women to benefit equally from development and equal benefits for all.