Critical Lens

Peterson and Runyan describe lenses as a way of focusing one’s attention in particular ways. The lenses filter what we look at and enable people to see things in greater detail or more accurately or in better relation to certain things. Overall, lenses simplify our thinking (Peterson and Runyan). Lenses matter when studying gender because it is a lens through which all of us see and organize reality. Lenses matter when studying global politics because they are used to make sense of the events and institutions that are studied (Peterson and Runyan). According to the reading, world politics is gendered due to the worldwide institutionalization of gender differences and it being a major underpinning of structural inequalities of significance to

In these interactions, the upper middle class women meet at world fairs to promote and make innovations in education, welfare and home services (Snarr, 2012). A woman’s view of development revolved around the terms of human and social development. Thus, women began forming organizations committed to human rights, development and peace. The first network to form was called the International Feminist Network who pushed for the UN to acknowledge that sexual assault on women during times of conflict is a form of violence (Snarr, 2012). Therefore, development was being made for equality for women and the poor. In turn, women began to seek participation in the development process, confronting violence and various other human rights abuses (Snarr, 2012). Overall, the interaction of women’s networks in development, made institutions acknowledge that development can’t be only measured in terms of GDP and GNI rates, but in terms of human rights and social development. This chapter’s discussion on women and development is directly related to poverty and economic issues. The most used measure of defining poverty is by comparing national income with the GNI (Snarr,

This idea is a form of development that can help women and children have an equal opportunity to get the distributed of resources (Lamy et al, 2010). The readings from Snarr, Chapter 10 and Snarr, Chapter 8 are similar in terms of their beliefs that poverty will decrease when there is developments in policies and ways for people (women and children) to better their circumstance and get equal rights/equal opportunity to get out of their situation. The phrase “from patriarchy to partnership” means going from a form of single-person (male dominated) rule to a rule where equal power shared among all. This transformation could mean going from a dictatorship or authoritarian regime to a democratic or communist system. In terms of this transformation, the United States can be viewed as one of the models to consider for becoming a democratic/equal power among all type of system. The United States barely fits the equal shares model as it is more of a capitalistic society, but it retains the ideas and policies of an equal opportunity/equal power sort of society and