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The Gender and Development (GAD) approach in the 1980s attempted to redress the problem, using gender analysis to develop a broader view. [4] The approach is more concerned with relationships, the way in which men and women participate in development processes, rather than strictly focusing on women's issues.
Katrina Maynes, Korean Perceptions of Chastity ceptions of Chastity, Gender Roles, and Libido; F, Gender Roles, and Libido; From Kisaengs to the Twenty First Century, in Grand Valley Journal of History, vol. 1, n. 1, February 2012.
The Central People's Government supports studies of gender and social development of gender in history and practices that lead to gender equality. Citing Mao Zedong 's philosophy, "Women hold up half the sky", this may be seen as continuation of equality of men and women introduced as part of Cultural Revolution .
Blom, Ida, et al. "The Past and Present of European Women's and Gender History: A Transatlantic Conversation." Journal of Women's History 25.4 (2013): 288–308. Hershatter, Gail, and Wang Zheng. "Chinese History: A Useful Category of Gender Analysis," American Historical Review, Dec 2008, Vol. 113 Issue 5, pp 1404–1421
Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in which people are not treated equally on the basis of gender. This inequality can be caused by gender discrimination or sexism. The treatment may arise from distinctions regarding biology, psychology, or cultural norms prevalent in the society.
Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place. Attitudes to male homosexuality have varied from requiring males to engage in same-sex relationships to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death.
The inclusion of both sex and gender as grounds for prohibiting discrimination is particularly significant as it protects individuals from discrimination based on biology or physical traits as well as the social or cultural background of the perceived role and position of women in society.
Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory [1] [2] [3] that emerged in the early 1990s out of queer studies (formerly often known as gay and lesbian studies) and women's studies.