Gender and Displacement

Friday, December 1, 2000
Author: 
Refugee Studies Centre and Norwegian Refugee Council; Global IDP Project

Gender and Development (GAD) takes as its starting point the idea that the behaviour of men and women is conditioned by social and cultural expectations, rather than by innate or natural differences between the two sexes. These assumed different results in injustice when they are reflected in differential access to decision-making power or when they carry with them discriminatory attitudes and values.

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