Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
Date
2020
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The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies
Abstract
Gender denotes the social prescriptions associated with biological sex in regard to
roles, behavior, appearance, cognition, emotions, and so on. Social relations of
gender or gender relations encompass all relationships in which gender sub jectivities play a role, including those among people, and between people and the
institutions, systems, and processes of development. The chapter describes three
features of gender relations that are generally consistent across societies – gender
ideologies and myths; gendered division of labor; and unequal power relation ships – and discusses their implications for development. The chapter further
explains the centrality of gender to the development enterprise and discusses
various approaches to integrating gender analysis in development processes.
Description
Research Article
Keywords
Gender, Gender equality, Women’s empowerment, Development, Africa