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The issue of "women in development" may be usefully conceptualized as having several distinct stages. Although this issue came to both national and international prominence very quickly, there are continuing problems in translating concern into action. If cumulative, self-corrective knowledge about what helps and what hurts women in various development efforts is ever to be compiled and communicated, a more institutionalized system of information is needed. (Internat. Polit. Science Assoc.)

Compared are the administrative lobbying efforts of women's & environmental groups to influence the US Agency for International Development (AID) to conform with Congressional mandates. In 1973, Congress mandated that AID involve women in its development programs, & AID responded with the establishment of a small, resource-poor monitoring office whose leader nurtured a wider constituency for the issue. In contrast, AID ignored its responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act; however, once established environmental groups initiated a suit against AID, its General Council joined the environmental monitoring office & other executive branch advocacy units to increase environmentally sound programming. The progress of these two issues is compared, focusing on interest groups, internal AID structure, & the issues themselves. 26 References. HA.