Women in Development: 1980 Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, United States House of Representatives

摘要

Recent progress in establishing women in development (WID) objectives has scarcely fostered equal progress in implementing actual WID projects according to this 1980 update of A.I.D.'s WID activities. After providing background information on the U.N. Decade for Women and the results of the Copenhagen Mid-Decade Conference on WID, the report details A.I.D's women-specific, women-component, and health/nutrition/population projects. The trend in women-specific projects has been discouraging, especially since these projects represent highly concentrated efforts to upgrade the position of women in the developing world. Recommendations include that: women-specific projects be claimed at including women in the development process (especially through women's organizations and host country women's bureaus) and at gathering more sex-disaggregated data on women in developing countries; women's concerns be given greater emphasis in large agriculture and rural development projects, especially in work-load reduction, income generation and family health.