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 UNIT 1:
GENDER & DEVELOPMENT:
DEFINITION AND PREVIEW
• Gender is a development issue
(Momsen, 2010) and development
is a gender issue.
 WHY GENDER?
The varied modes of and efforts at development across the
society pre- and post-globalization and liberalization have
affected women and men differently.

If gender relations heavily favor one gender, then

technology and modernization will restrict the other of the
positive impacts of development.
 WHY GENDER?
Gender relations heavily favor men.
Therefore, technology and modernization
have restricted women of the positive
impacts of development.
 WHY GENDER?
The Magna Carta of Women (Republic Act No. 9710) and
Gender and Development Program (GAD). GAD focuses on
Gender Mainstreaming or a strategy for:

• both genders’ concerns and experiences important for

equal benefit
• assessing possible consequences
 GOAL OF GAD
As a development approach, GAD seeks to
equalize the status and condition of and
relations between women and men by
influencing the process and output of
policymaking, planning, budgeting,
implementation and monitoring, and
evaluation so that they would deliberately
address the gender issues and concerns
affecting the full development of women.
 GENDER EQUITY
Providing more opportunities to those historically
and socially disadvantaged based on their needs.

United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All

Forms of Discrimination Against Women (UN-
CEDAW)
There are biases against women!
 HOW GENDER AND
DEVELOPMENT STARTED IN THE
PHILIPPINES
Gender and Development was developed in the 1980‘s as
an alternative to the Women in Development (WID)
approach.
Unlike WID, the GAD approach is not concerned specifically
with women.
TWO MAJOR FRAMEWORKS
SOCIAL RELATIONS
GENDER ROLES
ANALYSIS

• identities • exposes the social dimensions of

• 'maleness and femaleness' hierarchical power relations
imbedded in social institutions
• influence on the position of men
and women in society.
 SOCIETY BEFORE
THE GAD
Gender stereotypes are generalizations
about the roles of each gender. These
stereotypes are incredibly simplistic and
do not at all describe the attributes of
every person of each gender.