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Regimes focused on gender equity have come about through the efforts of global women's networks & their work with United Nations organizations, work that tends to be supported by certain Western governments & private foundations. However, while gender issues have now become part of the global agenda, individual state response has been minimal. The states involved tend to offer platforms & organize conventions, but do very little in terms of resource allocation & the meeting of concrete targets. There are problems across states in even defining gender equality. Further research, perhaps through case studies, is needed to determine how gender global norms are being implemented. D. Weibel

The adverse impact of policies of development agencies toward poor women of developing countries has been documented since the 1970s. Policy proposals have included training programs, research & data collection on women & allocation of resources to employ more women professionals to set up & monitor programs related to women & development, but implementation has been minimal. The question of why these problems have persisted is explored from an epistemological perspective by considering women in development within the prevailing discourses of gender, development, & development research. Definitions of what women can & cannot do are determined by the gender discourse. The discourse on development allows the inclusion of women only within the limits set by the gender discourse; it may be willing to consider the constraints on women posed by the gender discourse if these constraints affect the economic success of projects, but otherwise, its assumptions & methodology have, in general, not been receptive to the consideration of women. 45 References. HA