ABSTRACT
Part One of this book identified the ways in which current assumptions about women and men in society result in the formulation and implementation of policies, programmes and projects that ignore, disadvantage or discriminate against Third World women. Planners are unable to deal with the ‘whole’ economy—that is, with both market and non-market relations—and with gender divisions of labour. It is these that provide the conceptual rationale for the identification of gender planning as a planning tradition in its own right. This chapter describes the emerging tradition of gender planning, and outlines its methodological procedures, tools and techniques. Its purpose is to propose a new planning framework that can effectively aid the goal of the emancipation of women, through strategies to challenge and overcome oppressive roles and relationships.
