The term “women in development” was originally coined by a Washington-based network of female development professionals in the early 1970s[10] who sought to question trickle down existing theories of development by contesting that economic development had identical impacts on men and women.[11] The Women in Development movement (WID) gained momentum in the 1970s, driven by the resurgence of women's movements in developed countries, and particularly through liberal feminists striving for equal rights and labour opportunities in the United States.[12] Liberal feminism, postulating that women's disadvantages in society may be eliminated by breaking down customary expectations of women by offering better education to women and introducing equal opportunity programmes,[13] had a notable influence on the formulation of the WID approaches.[12]