Women are a huge percentage of the poor in the third world. The bias that is found within these programs was startling. While these programs attempt to alleviate poverty they don't take women's unpaid labor into account and women are left without the benefit of their aid. Beneria, Lourdes and Shelly Feldman ed. While women would like to improve their lifestyles they are hindered by the patriarchal societies of the third world.
Men control every aspect of life.
They hold power positions and the purse strings. This makes women's success dependent on men and their opinion of women's development. While the ideas of the industrial world are changing and it is more acceptable to find a woman in a power situation, this aspect of change and globalization has not yet hit the third world societies. This development, however, is not as great as the development that men have experienced. Programs such as SAK in India, which helps with basic heath training, Community Aid Abroad in Fiji, Revolving Loan Fund of New Guinea, and the Mozambican Woman's Association, are all programs which focus on women's development in the third world.