ABSTRACT
In Part One, a range of different ideas and ideologies were discussed which relate to the Western male tradition of ‘a woman’s place’. Among other things the central concept of discrimination was introduced, with emphasis not on the motives involved but on the discriminatory effect. In the world of development researchers and planners, women are so thoroughly excluded from the analysis-except in the fringe area of ‘social development’—that the planners can convincingly express surprise that they should be accused of practising discrimination against them. Part Two examines some of the mechanisms by which development organizations and individual planners work a discriminatory system without awareness of what is happening.
