1. Elaborate Boserup's contribution to the visibility of women and development.

2. Describe the emergence of the WID approach.

3. Trace the WID approach through the first three world conferences.

4. Elaborate the GAD approach

1. Boserup argued that more gender policies by national governments and international agencies might correct earlier mistakes. Women should be accorded equal resources and basic needs in order to improve their economic independence, importantly the provision of more equitable opportunities in education and employment. Although the WID approach had its limitations it increased the visibility of women in development. It was centered on criticizing the "invisibility" of women in development programs and not on looking critically at the development activity itself. WID narrowly concentrated the social, cultural, legal, and economic factors that give rise to those inequalities in societies
2. The first important statement of the position of women in development was made by Esther Boserup. She advanced a critique against modernization: that only economic efficiency would emancipate women in the third world. The modernization process supervised by colonial authorities imbued with Western notions of the sexual division of labour had placed new technologies under the control of men. The process marginalized women reducing their status, power, and income. WID "gave a voice to women" and pushed the issue of gender into the center stage in the context of the international development regime.
3. The first three international women's conference is from Mexico (1975), Nairobi (1980), Copenhagen (1985). The third women group pressured the emergence of the WID. The status of women from this approach on par with men was based on equality.
4. GAD aimed to bring together both the lessons and limitations learned from WID and WAD approaches, looking at the impact of development in both women and men. GAD argued that women were not a homogeneous group but rather divided by race, class, and ethnicity. It seeks to ensure that both men and women participate and benefit equally from development and therefore emphasizes equality of benefit and control in development projects.