About the Project
Gender inequity affects the lives of people across the world – in the United States of America, other developed countries, and in developing countries. Today’s colleges and universities must enable students, both females and males, to address this existential condition.
Our Vision
Our vision is students that graduate from our programs are aware of the important roles that women play in development and take action-oriented steps to insure their inclusion in prevailing and future development efforts.
Our Goal
Our goal is to develop gender-sensitive curricula composed of modules about key research-based development impact areas where women play key roles and are valued for their contributions.
Our Objective
Our objective is to develop and share gender-sensitive teaching modules that highlight the many roles that women play in development and to promote the value of women in society. Modules will be designed for use across multiple disciplines for inclusion into ongoing courses or as the foundation for new courses.
What We Do
Women in International Development (WID), formerly Gender Lensed Curricula for Development (GLCD), is an initiative that combines the activities of two projects funded by Texas A&M University (TAMU) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). “Gender Lensed Curricula for International Development” (GLCID) is sponsored by TAMU’s Presidential Transformation Teaching Grants program. “Gender Lensed Curricula for the Food, Agricultural, Natural Resources, and Human Sciences” (GLCF) is sponsored by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) Higher Education Challenge grant program.
WID focuses on developing and sharing gender-sensitive curricula that illuminate the roles that women across the world play in personal, food, health, economic, and environmental security. WID will fill the gap in readily available, accessible, and usable teaching materials that can be easily adapted or adopted for use in a wide array of ways and courses across the world to raise consciousness and promote action related to women in development.
Women in International Development (WID) is a purposeful networking step toward a true transdisciplinary enterprise that dissolves boundaries between disciplines to produce pathways for improving awareness and knowledge of women in development.
Our Performance-Based Objectives
Increase knowledge among faculty and teach international development courses
Increase knowledge among graduate students in international development courses
Develop 5 gender-lensed modules related to 5 development impact areas that emphasize role and value of women
Develop 6th gender analysis module of 5 impact areas
Incorporate role of women into university international development programs
Our Foundation
The foundation for our curriculum is rooted in six research-based international impact areas:
Food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences (i.e., food security)
Global value chains (i.e., the apparel industry)
Natural resource and environmental conflicts
Post-conflict and disaster reconstruction
Transnational security (i.e., the study of the transnational criminal underworld and policy responses to it)
A gender analysis that will overarch all five impact areas
This project followed an innovative authorship process informed by best practices in authorship and the Texas A&M University Libraries.
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