Strategic gender needs/interests

  • Refer to socio-economic and political positions of women compared to men.
  • Relate to structures and systems, which are embedded and therefore more difficult to deal with.
  • In looking at strategic needs, focus is placed on factors such as:


  • Marginalisation
  • Discrimination
  • Objectification
  • Infantilization
  • Dispossession
  • Value assignment
  • Violence
  • Subordination