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Andrée Michel, « Recherches sur les femmes et le "développement" », L'Homme et la société, ID : 10.3406/homso.1991.2545
Andrée Michel, Research on Women and Development From 1974 to 1984, received ideas about women in the Third World were systematically tested by critical reflection and empirical study. Particularly significant was the critique of traditional economic indicators which ignored sex or social class differentiation. During this period, research encouraged by international organizations produced both quantitative and qualitative criteria that are today accepted by the international scientific community. Since 1986, a new, holistic approach has attempted to include women in the policies governing North-South relations. This new effort holds out the promise of enriching feminist, university research on the question of women and development