feminist press p it began to be understood as primarily an addon to existing development policies specifically this approach failed to factor womens reproductive and informalsector work into its analyses it also treated women as a homogenized category missing the impact of intersectional discrimination as a result of class and race in short this liberal feminist model failed to have a transformative effect on the lives of women gender neutrality ignored gendered structural inequalities which had and indeed continue to have negative effects on women the women and development approach further argued that the failure to integrate women as economic actors in their societies contributed to sustaining existing international structures of inequality