• Gender
• Budgets and the economy
• Citizenship and migration
• Conflict and emergencies
  • Conflict and emergencies
  • Displacement and refugees
  • Peacebuilding and reconstruction
• Empowerment
• Gender-based violence
  • Gender-based violence
  • Genital mutilation
  • Trafficking
• Gender mainstreaming
  • Gender mainstreaming
  • In organisations
  • Mainstreaming in development programmes and policy
• Human rights
  • Human rights
  • Sexuality and reproductive rights
  • Disability
• Masculinity
• Governance and political participation
• Poverty reduction strategies
  • Poverty reduction strategies
  • Gender and the MDGs
• Social movements
• Work and employment
• Also in this guide
• Gender country profiles
• Gender manuals
• Key Issues
  • Key Issues
  • Gender and social protection
• Websites
  • Websites
  • Gender and education
  • Gender and governance websites
  • Gender mainsteaming websites
  • Gender and health
  • Gender and conflict
• Meet the editor
• In other guides
• Gender and agriculture
• Gender and climate change
• Gender and education
• Gender and food security
• Gender and health challenges
• Gender and health systems
• Gender and HIV/AIDS
• Gender and livelihoods
• Gender and trade

Gender

This document provides an overview of common gender research methodologies in the development field. It particularly focuses on the three main areas below: 

• gender analysis approach: this includes several different approaches such as sex-disaggregated data and the analysis of women and men’s roles, and access to resources. The approaches however, differ in the degree to which analysis is extended beyond the sphere of production, the degree to which they consider other social relations and also in the extent to which they are based on gender equity principles

• social relations approach: through this approach, ending women's subordination is viewed as more than a matter of reallocating economic resources. The central focus is on generating a shift in power relations 

• rights based approach: this is defined by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as a conceptual framework that integrates the norms, standards and principles of the international human rights system into the plans, policies and processes of development.

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