Gender and Development

Abstract

Since the 1960s, different theoretical frameworks have been used to understand how women are located in global economic processes, and each has had a concomitant strategy to enhance women's positions. Modernization approaches were common in the mid‐twentieth century, but these strategies were criticized by dependency theorists. By the 1970s, such male‐focused arguments were largely supplanted by women in development, and, more recently, by a wide range of gender and development approaches.