1st Edition
Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Accumulation of assets to enable the diversification of activities has been established as crucial in helping the rural poor escape poverty. The empowerment of women has been identified as a way to overcome inefficiencies in the allocation of resources within the family and so improve agrarian households’ productivity. However, achieving diversification is not necessarily empowering for women and... Read more
1. Introduction2. The Surveys: Countries, Methodology and Poverty Clasifications3. Time Use and Labour Supply in Rural Households4. Landlessness, Poverty and Labour Supply in South-western Ethiopia5. Redefining Gender Roles and Reworking Gender Relations: Female Agricultural Labour in Dry Regions of Andhra Pradesh6. Gender Relations and Female Labour Supply in Eastern Uganda7. Female-headed Households in Zimbabwe: A Different Type of Poverty Needing a Different Set of Solutions?8. Policies and Poverty Alleviation
Biography
Sara Horrell, Hazel Johnson, Paul Mosley
"This book follows in the tradition, established by the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, of regarding issues of gender in general, and the treatment of women in particular, as central to the process of economic development" Vani Borooah (University of Ulster, UK)
