Women and Development in Africa: How Gender WorksExtrait de l'introduction : "This book offers an introduction to the analysis of gender in the economies of sub-saharian Africa. Gender refers to the constellation of rules and identities that prescribe and proscribe behavior for persons, in their social roles as men and women. These rules and identities may be deliberate or unintended, explicit or implicit, conscious or unconscious. All societies of the world are gendered. The focus here will be on Africa south of the Sahara Desert. ... Exploring gender issues is an opportunity to master analytical and empirical tools used in the social sciences. ... The approach adopted in this book emphasizes the interactions between the choices that individuals make and the social environment that structures those choices." |
Contents
Explaining Underdevelopment in Africa | 9 |
Results of Regressions Explaining Growth in | 26 |
Some Preliminaries | 39 |
The Land Tenure Rights of African Women | 47 |
1 | 77 |
Control over Labor in African Villages | 81 |
1 | 87 |
The Marriage Market | 101 |
2 | 145 |
Investments in Education | 147 |
Development Projects for Women | 171 |
1 | 176 |
New Directions | 181 |
1 | 183 |
Tools for Analysis | 193 |
Supply and Demand in Beer Market | 195 |
1 | 114 |
Bargaining Power at Home | 115 |
The Gendered Treatment of Girls and Boys | 125 |
2 | 129 |
5 | 135 |
A 1 | 208 |
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2 | 230 |
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activities adult African countries African societies allocation analysis areas bargaining beer behavior Bereba borrowers Botswana boys bridewealth Burkina Faso capital CEDAW child choices coefficients colonial cooperate costs Côte d'Ivoire credit program crosstab daughters Development discrimination divorce dowry dummy variable earn economic effects equilibrium estimated expenditures farm female fields fight gender Ghana girls groups growth higher household husband income increase inherit investments Kenya Kevane labor market land loan male marriage contract marriage market married matrilineal maximization measures Microcredit mortality Mossi Nagreongo Nash Nash equilibrium nutrition Ouagadougou outcome parents percent person political polygyny problem production projects ratio regression sample schooling sexual share social norms strategy structures sub-Saharan Africa Sudan supply-and-demand Table Tanzania tenure threat points tion Uganda urban utility village wage widows wife wives woman World Bank Zambia Zimbabwe