Why is focusing on women so important in addressing issues of poverty and development for poor nations? Why did the various development organizations neglect to do this for so long?

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Other International Politics Topics, University of North Florida, language: English, abstract: Poverty is “the involuntary lack of sufficient resources to provide or exchange for basic necessities” which include food, housing, clothes, schooling and health care (Reeves 131). Development refers to “social, economic, and political structures and pro...