women and their resources were centrally involved in prevailing development policies and practices, though not in ways that benefited women. Appropriating women's resources - land, time, food and energy resources, paid and unpaid labor, community networks for maintaining health, political and economic "insurance," and so on - was central to economistic development's most exploitative but "successful" practices.
- Sandra Harding.
Many of the development policies, past and present alike, tend to promote market-led economic growth by increasing consumption or inducing structural reforms towards liberalism. Supporters of such policy cheer gleefully, convinced that they would boost more revenue and therefore improve life standard. The prospect lies ahead has never been better, except for one marginalized group. In the middle of this warm welcome, some are mostly forgotten as though they are not existed. The invisible hand, unlike that of the market, contributes to the national economy as much as others. Women are behind the increased gross domestic products in their place at the very end of the spiral economic structure. However, the policies do not seem to take them much into account. .
This essay aims to show that despite women's much contributions to the economy, their efforts are far less appreciated. It will then prove this in economic aspect, namely land, time, and job payment, as well as in social aspect. At the end it will suggest the line the policy ought to take ensure that there will be less marginalization of women. They cannot be ignored any further.
The idea of global capitalist class can render much of the understanding in the reason behind the issuing policies. They operate through prevailing ideas of free trade and consumerism, holding their interests best at heart. They cooperate with the domestic elite class in order to make the agenda setting the way they want; therefore, they appropriate the national resources at the same time, much of these come from women.
