In early February, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade released its new International Gender Equality Strategy. The strategy is designed to target Australia’s development assistance toward improving the conditions for women and girls – with an understanding that societies faring better in the treatment of women tend to also have lower levels of poverty, autocracy, corruption, instability, and civil unrest.
Yet there is a caveat. For international development policies aimed at improving the conditions of women and girls to produce long-term positive results, there is a need to recognize that the agency and advancement of women and girls doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
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