The women and development perspective aimed to “explain the relationship between women and the process of capitalist development in terms of the material conditions that contributed to their exploitation” (Martinez, 95) . This means that the approach addresses the particular socio-economic structures that form our capitalist society, such as class, the mode of production and the international division of labor guided by the unequal balance of power between the central and from the periphery. One of the strengths of the women and development perspective is that, unlike the women in development approach, it considers inequalities between men and women in the private space and treats the family as a production unit. However, the approach was weak due to its lack of respect for power relations within the family unit..