Refers to the specific roles and responsibilities for women and men in a society. This is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes in all areas at all levels. Gender equity does not mean that women and men become the same, but that their opportunities and life chances are equal. Water resource services that are developed as part of sustainable development are thus not dependent on continued external support for their ongoing service delivery and use. Gender analysis focuses on understanding and documenting the differences in gender roles, activities, needs, and opportunities in a given context.
Gender analysis involves the disaggregated of quantitative data by gender.
It highlights the different roles and learned behavior of men and women based on gender attributes. Targets factors that discriminate against women. This site is maintained by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre For comments or questions, please contact the webmaster .