From WID to GAD, trends in gender mainstreaming

If all you need is a simple and concise, yet extremely useful, guide to the trends in gender and women's issues then the UK's Department of International Development (DFID) Gender Manual is probably what you are after. Alternatively, if you are interested in a more systematic analysis of the trend in gender and women's issues in International Development over the past few decades you may be interest to read, From WID to GAD: Conceptual Shifts in the Women and Development Discourse. There is much here to benefit anyone interested in gender mainstreaming in rural development.