Sex identifies the biological difference between men and women. It therefore refers not to men and women but to the relationship between them, and the way this is socially constructed, gender relations are contextually specific and often change in response to altering circumstances. Refers to a systematic way of looking at the different impacts of development on women and men. As development programmes have actively sought to reach women, we have learned that gender has a lot to do with what work we do, how much time we have to do it, and how much money we have to do it with.
Gender analysis requires separating data by sex, and understanding how labour is divided and valued.
Person, policy, or an institution that does not recognize that gender is an essential determinant of the life choices available to us in society. This approach shifts the focus from women as a group to the socially determined relations between women and men. A Gender and Development approach focuses on the social, economic, political and cultural forces that determine how men and women might participate in, benefit from and control project resources and activities differently. Information differentiated on the basis of what pertains to women and their roles, and to men and their roles. A planning approach that recognizes that because women and men play different roles in society they often have different needs.