Learning Activity 7

Long time before woman used to suffer recognition because women were expected to be in the kitchen and do her routines’ over there. Again woman was supposed to give birth and took care of the family by making sure that everything runs smooth and that everybody need are fulfilled.

The reflection of Gender and development (GAD) took place during the 80’s and it gives raise to the GAD approaches that focuses on men and women. Also its aim was to bring together both the lessons and limitations learnt from WID and WAD approaches. It also looked at the impact of development on both women and men, with gender relation that women. GAD argued that women were not a homogeneous group but rather divided by race, class and ethnicity. The feminist approaches and develop GAD in a radical feminism in women’s emancipation and the uprooting of patriarchy and here in South Africa we experience the scenario whereby there was a march which was initiated by women to march to union building in Pretoria in order to push the abolishment of the law that required the citizen to carry their passport everywhere they go.

WID Women in development approaches started in the early 1970’s and focused on the restructuring development programs of welfare, equity, antipoverty empowerment of woman. On the basis of their own experiences in overseas missions they began to challenge trickledown theories of development, arguing that modernization was impacting differently on men and women. Although the WID approaches had its limitation in increased the visibility of women in development.