MGS-001 Assignment 2024-25 Questions and Answers – Master Index

MGS-001: Gender and Development – Assignment 2024-25 Master Index

This page contains all the answers for the IGNOU MAGD Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA-01) for the course MGS-001: Gender and Development: Concepts, Approaches and Strategies. Each answer has been written in simple language, ideal for undergraduate understanding, with clarity and structure.

📘 PART A – Short Answer Questions (200 Words Each)

1. Define and discuss the concept of Integrated Development from a gender perspective.
2. How would you describe the Sustainable Development Goals in terms of addressing concerns of gender inequality?
3. Define ‘Development’. Discuss the emergence of development and modernization theories.
4. How Ester Boserup’s thesis has contributed to highlighting women’s contribution to economic development? Explain

📗 PART B – Long Answer Questions (1000 Words Each)

1. Write an essay on the emergence of a framework or theory of gender and development to address gender concerns in the development process.
2. What is unpaid labour? Discuss gender segregation in unpaid work.
3. What is gender Mainstreaming? Discuss various case studies related to gender mainstreaming in the Indian context.

Course Code: MGS-001
Programme Code: MAGD
Assignment Code: MGS-001/AST-01/TMA/2024-25
Category: MGS-001

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