PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 23 Gender and REFLECT

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 23 Gender and REFLECT Kate Metcalf and Geni Gomez Why is gender so important? It is necessary to dismantle our way of thinking and construct a new vision of the world. In the past different popular education projects have often failed because they have not Key issues in a gender perspective addressed the issue of gender relations and gender oppression. Crucial questions about power, access to and control of resources, A gender analysis provides a framework to gender violence and the sexual division of explore the totality of interacting influences, labour have been overlooked. A gender such as gender, class, ethnicity, caste, age and analysis provides the theoretical and practical the macro and micro environment and culture, framework to address these issues. A gender which affect women's and men's lives in analysis is a holistic approach which different ways according to the context. A subsequently does not exclude from its gender analysis is a feminist analysis. Central analysis other types of oppression to a gender approach is a gender disaggregated examination of roles and control of and access Gender has become fashionable in to resources. Thus the household is development circles. As a buzz ...