Gender Backgrounder Keywords: Gender justice, gender equity Issue date March 2024 KEY TERMS • Gender justice: a holistic approach that breaks the gender binary and seeks to rectify the deeply ingrained structural inequalities that perpetuate gender-based discrimination and exclusion, with an intersectional focus. [...] This goal has A shift towards ‘Gender and Development’ in inequality and cumulative taken different forms around the world, from the 1980s aimed to refocus attention away disadvantage within and between struggles for reproductive rights to efforts to from women as the ‘problem’, placing greater countries at the centre, bringing in grant women greater access to and control emphasis on transforming. [...] Valuable as this is, extending the The struggle for gender equality has been boundaries.framing to gender justice would allow us instrumental in making visible the recurrent to broaden the focus of analysis to the • A gender justice framing goes ways in which patriarchal structures rob relationships between these entities, as well beyond the gender binary, which women around the world of their rig. [...] The • Gender justice addresses the root terms of unequal access to resources, gender justice framing expands the analytical causes of exclusion and rights and opportunities.2 timeframe to allow a historical understanding discrimination, advocating for the of the processes shaping gender inequalities, rectification of historical, racial and The concept of gender justice provides an including how po. [...] Gender justice as an 2 Addressing deep-seated inequalities Association of African Women for analytical lens Research and Development requires concepts and tools that expand the The establishment of normative global goals (AAWORD) (1982) The experience of framing of the problem — thereby opening for gender equality, such as Sustainable the Association of African Women for up possibilities for more.
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