Since the 1960s, different theoretical frameworks have been used to understand how women are located in global economic processes, and each has had a concomitant strategy to enhance women's positions. Modernization approaches were common in the mid-twentieth century, but these strategies were criticized by dependency theorists. By the 1970s, such male-focused arguments were largely supplanted by women in development, and, more recently, by a wide range of gender and development approaches.