From state-directed non-development and organized gender violence to transition in Vojvodina and Serbia.

The introduction of gender as an analytical tool in development economics is often related to questions about the social construction of male and female productive and reproductive roles and their relationships. Gendered studies of economic development focus not only on economic growth as important; they also suppose structural changes such as decreasing rates of poverty, inequality, and unemployment for both sexes as desirable goals. However, social development, in any country, also has to be treated as a multidimensional and continuous process of solving numerous and complicated social problems, with an understanding that these solutions, at the same time, produce'new and more complicated questions. In this paper, I will use a Gender and Development (GAD) approach to discuss the significance of gender equality as a political and social condition for the successful economic and social development of Serbia.