Development as if Gender Matters

Abstract

Wendy Harcourt highlights the most interesting and contentious issues to emerge during a conversation held among 25 people from key women's networks, UN agencies, research institutions and think tanks at the 54th Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) in New York March 2010. (1) Using charterhouse rules, the dialogue was an attempt to hold a new kind of conversation in the CSW space. The participants candidly held up to scrutiny the key concepts of gender and empowerment in the context of the new development institutions.