Work, female empowerment and economic development
By: Sara Horrell, Hazel Johnson and Paul Mosley.
Contributors: Johnson, Hazel.; Mosley, Paul.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxon [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415437578; 9780203931264
Subjects: Rural women -- Employment -- Developing countries; Sexual division of labor -- Developing countries; Sex discrimination in employment -- Developing countries; Poverty -- Developing countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The surveys: countries, methodology and poverty clasifications; title: Time use and labour supply in rural households; title: Landlessness, poverty and labour supply in South-Western Ethiopia; title: Redefining gender roles and reworking gender relations: female agricultural labour in dry regions of Andhra Pradesh; title: Gender relations and female labour supply in Eastern Uganda; title: Female-headed households in Zimbabwe: a different type of poverty needing a different set of solutions?; title: Policies and poverty alleviation.