A perspective that pays particular attention to how gender differences and relations are relevant for investments and projects. Gender analysis explores social relationships and gender gaps in several domains, including: gendered division of labor, access to and control over resources, and decision-making power, as well as the opportunities for advancing gender equality. This approach to analyzing a situation can establish a more complete and less biased standpoint from which to understand the context of an investment or project. A gender analysis is the first step to designing gender intentional investments/projects/programmes, and leads to the identification of who may be included and who may be excluded from an investment or project on the basis of their sex or gender identity. Source: Gates Gender Equality Toolbox – Lexicon.
