WOMENS ROLE IN

DEVELOPMENT

Plan :
1- Introduction
2- The evolution of women s role in development through history
3- Womens role in development :
*Economic development.
*Political development.
*Social and cultural development.
4- Womens Roles in Agriculture and Rural Labor Markets.
5- The world s most powerful women.
6- Women who made Morocco proud (video).
7-Coclusion.

Introduction:
This topic aims to highlight the women role in the development in the
societies so Women should be considered as key for economic growth by
the promotion of womens economic rights which entails promoting a
range of womens rights: their sexual and reproductive rights and rights
to education, to mobility, to voice, to ownership, and to live free from
violence.
Thus its needed to increase women's participation in power and
decision making.

The evolution of womens role

trough history :
Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in
history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the
history of the growth of womans rights throughout recorded history, the
examination of individual and groups of women of historical significance,
and the effect that historical events have had on women.
History was written mainly by men and about men's activities in the
public spherewar, politics, diplomacy and administration. Women are
usually excluded and, when mentioned, are usually portrayed in sexstereotypical roles such as wives, mothers, daughters and mistresses.

The passage from the the Women in Development

(WID) approach,to the the Gender and
Development (GAD) approach:
Women in development (WID)

The term women and development was originally coined by a

Washington-based network of female development professionals in the
early 1970 who sought to put in question the trickle down theories of
development by contesting that modernization had identical impact on
men and women The Women in Development movement (WID) gained
momentum in the 1970s, driven by the resurgence of women's
movement in northern countries, whereby liberal feminists were
striving for equal rights and labour opportunities in the United States.

Gender and development (GAD)

The GAD approach encourages planning, implementation, monitoring and

evaluation to be undertaken according to the following principles:
Work on more than one level (practical and strategy needs) to bring about
change in gender relations;
Work in a participatory way with men and women make sure you involve
men because it takes men as well as women to change gender relations;
Take a broader, historically-informed view of gender relations and its social
contextit hasnt grown up yesterday, nor will it be changed overnight.

Are women the Key to economic

development ?
The Management Development Program for Women was designed for working women who would benefit from formal
management training. Courses included Business Strategy, Marketing, Management & Organizational Behavior,
Communications, Accounting, Human Resources Management, Business Writing, and more.
The programs integrated courses concentrated on:
**the development of a broad understanding of the principles and functions of management
**the improvement of management skills through self-assessment, practice and feedback

Objectives
The objective of the Management Development Program for Women was to provide management education, which
combined theory with practice and reflected the actual world of management. The target audience was working women
who were managers or were about to become managers.
The program was designed to facilitate the transfer of learning from the classroom to the workplace. Workplace based
assignments required participants to integrate new theories and skills with data and experience drawn from the
participants own work setting.
Participants must have been sponsored for admission to the program. Sponsors were encouraged to become partners in
the learning process.

The strategy for economic empowerment, according to the World Bank

is twofold:
**Making the market work for women.
**Empowering women in the market.
Supporting the economic empowerment of women is not just good
company policy; it actually benefits the corporate world. Firms that
employ women in leadership positions have better performance and
higher profits. And, contrary to what might be believed, supporting
female employment actually has a positive impact on family life and
encourages women to have more children.
For professional women with families, the benefits of workplace
achievement and advancement must be weighed continuously against
their perceived costsboth real and imagined.

Womens civil and political participation:

UN Womens programs on leadership and participation are guided by a history
of international commitments to womens representation. The Convention
of Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
upholds womens right to participate in public life, while the Beijing
Platform for Action calls for removing barriers to equal participation. The
Millennium Development Goals measure progress towards gender
equality in part by the proportion of women in parliamentary seats.
The affirmation of the role of women and the defending of their rights
constitute a dimension crucial to the strategy of the realization of the
Millennium Development objectives.

The three major findings of this study were that women public officials:
1*have different policy priorities. They are more likely to give priorities to
womens rights policies; they are also more likely to give priority to
public policies related to womens traditional roles as caregivers in the
family and society.
2* that they are more active on womens legislation, whether or not it is
their top priority.
3* that they are more feminist and more liberal in their attitudes on major
public policy issues.

Social and cultural Development:

-By having a role in economic and political development, a woman is
already contributing to social development.
-The reproductive role.
-The role of preservative African woman transmissive of life and culture in
Africa.
-The contribution of women in the development of art. (Chaabya Tallal,
Frida Kahlo)
-Women are taking in hand the purpose of protecting and promoting
womens rights in the legislative field. (Feminism)
-They can also struggle and defend their values and ideas (Simone de
beauvoir, Rosa Parks, Nawal Saadaoui)

Agriculture and rural labor markets:

-Women make important contributions to the agricultural and
rural economies of all regions of the world.
-They play a significant role in the agricultural labor force and
in agricultural activities, although to a varying degree.
-Women comprise about 43 percent of the global agricultural
labor force in developing countries.
-Example: Asia (50%) and Africa (80%) of agriculture output.

The worlds most powerful women:

ANGELA MERKEL:
Born in 17 July 1954
*In 1990: joined the CDU
*In 1998: Secretary General
of the CDU
*2000: a party leader
*2005: Germanys chancellor

OPRAH WINEFRY

Born January 29, 1954

*Former host of the Oprah
show
*CEO of Harpo Production
*CEO of the Oprah network
*Author

QUEEN RANIA OF
JORDAN

Born 31 August 1970

*Advocacy work
*Education
*Health community
empowerment
*Youth
*Micro-finance.

Women who made Morocco proud :

SALWA IDRISSI AKHNNOUCH

*Queen of Morocco
franchise
*Founder and CEO of
AKSAL Group
*Leader of Retail
Business

MERIEM BENSALEH BENCHAQROUN

*CEO of Eaux minrales
dOulmes
*CEO of Holmarcom
Group
*Member of BAM
*President of GCMC
*Airplane pilot.

Conclusion:
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. Coco Chanel
I do not wish them (women) to have power over men, but over
themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft
Strong women don't play victim, don't make themselves look pitiful
and don't point fingers, they stand and they deal. Mandy Hale
A successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the
bricks others have thrown at her. David Brinkley

By :
ED-DAMI Hanae
ELGUERCH Salima
ZEGGANI Houda
ELHANKARI Chaimae