这里所说的性别不是指男女之间的生理差异，而是指二者在社会经济政治文化活动中的不同之处。将性别问题（ｇｅｎｄｅｒｉｓｓｕｅ）引入发展经济学研究，是二十世纪国际社会有关发展的观念不断更新和丰富的结果。从四十年代末至六十年代中期，“发展”还仅仅被理解为是经济增 Sex here refers not to the physical differences between men and women, but to the differences between the two in socio-economic, political and cultural activities. The introduction of gender issues into the study of development economics is the result of the constant renewal and enrichment of the concept of development in the international community in the twentieth century. From the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, “development” was only understood as an economic increase