Useful women development approaches in South Africa 

1. GAD in South Africa.

This approach recognized women as a diverse group with interests that vary by sex, class, age, and ethnicity.

It recognizes men and women as partners in development. Considers both of them in economic and political relations .

The ‘Gender and Development’ approach concentrated on the unequal relations between men and women and seeks to transform this.

Thus apart from women, the ‘Gender and Development’ approach focuses on the social relations between men and women.

It emphasizes the equal access of women and men to the resources, and benefits from development.

It analyzes the contributions of women within (reproductive) including unpaid domestic work and outside the household (productive work). In other words, it recognizes the gender division.

2. Women in Delopment 

he purpose of Women in Development was to integrate women into economic development by focusing on women’s productive work in two ways:

Providing women money and other resources for income-generating activities.

Developing appropriate technologies to lighten women’s load. 

The modernizing theory underpinned the ‘WID’ Approach. It believed that industrialization would lead to economic development.