- Women should not be just the passive recipient of development aid but they should involve themselves in the development field.
- Emphasizes on sexual division of labor.
- Women have always been integral part of development.
- Focuses on relationship between patriarchy and capitalism.
- Assumes that women only development alongside men can help women to alienate themselves from the patriarchal structure and stand alone.
- Focused on women only empowerment in terms of education, capacity building, trainings and economic activities of women.
- Backfired and failed due to the marginalized status of women in the society.
- Value is placed in economic generation rather than uplifting their social and cultural status.