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Social Relations Approach

The Social Relations Approach, developed by Naila Kabeer at the Institute of Development Studies in the early 1990s, is a framework for analysing gender inequality as a product of social relations embedded in institutions rather than as a matter of women's roles alone. It treats human well-being and empowerment as the goal of development, examines how four key institutions — the state, the market, the community, and the family or kinship — produce and reproduce inequality through their rules, resources, people, activities, and distribution of power, and traces the causes of inequality at immediate, underlying, and structural levels.

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Social Relations Approach to Gender Analysis (Kabeer)

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Kabeer, N. (1994). Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought. Verso, London. · ISBN 9780860915843
Kabeer, N. (1999). Resources, agency, achievements: Reflections on the measurement of women's empowerment. Development and Change, 30(3), 435–464. · DOI 10.1111/1467-7660.00125

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