Taking women's time, resources and efforts, the development policies try to force the norm down the third world's throat. The capitalist class does not need to rule directly in the sense that a government or dictatorship rules, but no government or dictatorship that works actively against the interests of those who own and control the means of production can survive for long. (Sklair 2001, 14) That is why domestic and international policies tend to go hand in hand, sapping self-sufficient agriculture while promoting cash crops and industrial economy instead. The very core value of capitalism reflects western form of masculinity reproduced in economic models. It thus makes men as general human while condemns women to the stage of out-group or other. Women are viewed to be in the subsistent role only. Many domestic policies concerning women's resources reflect this viewpoint clearly. .
In terms of law lands and land own, women have much less access than men. There .
are great disparities between rights of men and of women to take hold of lands, even the women cultivated in that land not any less. Guerny's study suggests that:.
Disparities in male/female access to land are virtually universal. In Latin America, men and women do not have equal access to land even in those countries where legislation has removed gender barriers to land ownership. In this region, as well as in the Caribbean, women's access to land and to other property generally takes place through a male relative. In most of (patrilineal) Africa, women are essentially temporary custodians of land passing from father to male heir, even though they may be de facto heads of household. As unpaid labourers on their husbands' land, while also cultivating separate plots in their own right, African women usually lose the rights to land following the death of their spouse. Widows and divorced women have virtually no tenure or inheritance rights with which to ensure food security for themselves or their children.