The emphasis on incorporating women into development processes succeeded in:

1. focusing attention on the shortcomings of development policies practiced in the 1950s and 1960s;

2. expanding the documentation, including sex disaggregated data, on women’s roles in economic and social systems;

3. establishing goals and plans for improving women’s status around the globe;
4. increasing the representation of women in official government positions;
5. changing many inequitable laws that discriminated against women;
6. mobilizing women at the grassroots level around the world.