Employment versus empowerment: A case study of the nature of women's work in Ecuador

Faulkner, Anne H.; Lawson, Victoria

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“…This indicates that women face a gender disadvantage with regard to building assets from their employment. Razavi suggests evaluating the choices of women and men against a series of constraints arising from the urgency of domestic needs, the low income potential of smallholder production and the prevailing perception of women's labour as unskilled, regardless of the tasks involved in an activity (Chhachhi and Herrera, 2007;Faulkner and Lawson, 1991;Razavi, 1999Razavi, , 2009. Not least, the critics also highlight the instrumentalist character of the concept of women's economic empowerment as it is used by development agencies (Jones, 2012;Kabeer, 2012).…”

Section: Feminisation Of Agricultural Productionmentioning

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New ruralities – old gender dynamics? A reflection on high-value crop agriculture in the light of the feminisation debates

Bieri

2014

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. While a remarkable continuity in smallholder agricultural production has been identified, the shift from subsistence orientation towards more wage dependence appears in a different light when analysed under a gender perspective. "Feminisation" has been a catchphrase to characterise some of these processes; however, the debate has been subject to overgeneralisation, and can only inadequately grasp the gender dynamics in what has been referred to as "new ruralities". Illustrated for high-value crop production as an expression of agricultural transition in the Global South, this contribution offers a critical account of the feminisation thesis. Instead of discarding the notion of feminisation, it advocates a reassessment of its potential as a comprehensive framework against which empirical findings can be reflected. While conventional uses of the feminisation thesis have, in their great majority, come up with the conclusion that for women it can always only get worse, I propose a perspective which reveals gains and risks and how they are shared between men and women as they engage in new agricultural labour markets. This perspective rests on a methodology for case-based, comparative studies developed in this paper as a contribution for assessing the nature of agricultural transition and to investigate the qualitative change associated with new ruralities. A distinctive appreciation of the substance of agricultural change for different members of the rural society -namely men and women, but also different men, and different women -is the premise for overcoming barriers to shared development, and for framing effective governance in the context of global development.

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Section: Feminisation Of Agricultural Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

New ruralities – old gender dynamics? A reflection on high-value crop agriculture in the light of the feminisation debates

Bieri

2014

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“…Similarly, Faulkner and Lawson (1991) show that in Ecuador, while the benefits vary considerably from one economic sector to another, some women benefit greatly by gaining access to well-paid jobs . Well-educated women gain because Culturally defined ideologies .…”

Section: The Situation Of Women and Childrenmentioning

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“…In Brazil, "women are more likely than men to be in the informal sector and are almost entirely in the worse-off categories of that sector" (Telles, 1993, p. 246) . Around the Third World, the literature constantly tells the same story, whether it is in the formal sector, the informal sector or the whole labour market (Baud, 1993 ;Faulkner and Lawson, 1991 ;Hays-Mitchell, 1993 ;House et al ., 1993 ;Lubell, 1991 ;Standing, 1989 ;UNCSDHA, 1989) .…”

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Third World Cities: Poverty, Employment, Gender Roles and the Environment during a Time of Restructuring

Gilbert

1994

Urban Studies

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“…As Faulkner and Lawson (1991) demonstrate, if women's employment is concentrated in inferior positions, then access to employment alone may in fact make them worse off than before. However, as discussed above, the Mahila Samakhya not only provides access to employment, it also increases agency and access to social resources.…”

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Measuring the Effect of a Community-Level Program on Women's Empowerment Outcomes: Evidence from India

Kandpal¹,

Baylis²,

Arends‐Kuenning³

2013

Policy Research Working Papers

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Employment versus empowerment: A case study of the nature of women's work in Ecuador

Cited by 27 publications

References 23 publications

New ruralities – old gender dynamics? A reflection on high-value crop agriculture in the light of the feminisation debates

New ruralities – old gender dynamics? A reflection on high-value crop agriculture in the light of the feminisation debates

Third World Cities: Poverty, Employment, Gender Roles and the Environment during a Time of Restructuring

Measuring the Effect of a Community-Level Program on Women's Empowerment Outcomes: Evidence from India

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