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Gender Training: Definitions and Tools

Definitions of Gender

Peruvian women working in a factory.

Gender is defined as the economic, political, and cultural attributes and opportunities associated with being male or female. The social definitions of what it means to be male or female vary among cultures and change over time.

Gender refers to the array of socially constructed roles and relationships, personality traits, attitudes, behaviors, values, relative power, and influence that society ascribes to men and women. Gender is an acquired identity that changes over time and varies widely within and across cultures.

Gender Analysis In International Development Activities

Gender analysis examines the political, economic, and social experiences of men and women, and assesses where the experiences of men and women converge or diverge, and why. By including gender analysis, development practitioners and policy analysts can determine more effectively ways to include both men and women in economic growth programs and design activities that expand areas of opportunity as well as reduce adverse effects for poor men and women.

USAID programs can be a means of enhancing the abilities of both men and women to pro-actively seize the new opportunities presented by trade and economic growth activities.

Gender and Economic Growth Programs: Building Capacity to Addrress Gender

While economic growth programs are designed to reduce poverty, practitioners and policy makers often lack the tools to explicitly include a gender perspective within programs.

Building the capacity of USAID development practitioners and policy analysts to recognize that integrating gender concerns into economic growth and trade programs improves both economic and development outcomes, and equipping them with the tools to do so, are key goals of the Gender and Economic Growth Training Materials designed by the Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) Project.

Publications

Gender Information Sources for Economic Growth/Trade-Related Activities11/1/2007 (80KB)

Gender Integration Strategies for Trade (GIST) Tables11/01/2007 (120KB)

Gender Terminology12/1/2007 (45KB)

Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Economic Growth/Trade-Related Activities11/1/2007 (66KB)

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