The women and development perspective aimed to “explain the relationship between women and the capitalist development process in terms of material conditions that contributed to their exploitation” (Martinez,95 ). This means that the approach addressed particular socioeconomic structures that shape our capitalist society such as class, mode of production, and the international division of labor driven by the unequal balance of power between core and periphery countries. One of the strengths of the women and development perspective was that, unlike the “Women in Development” approach, it considered inequalities between men and women in private space and treated the family as a unit of production. However, the approach was weak due to a lack of respect for power relations within the family unit.