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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu12178717032021-08-03T05:54:05Z Women's Changing Roles, Issues, and Decisionmaking: The Case of Lebou-Wolof Women Farmers in Thieudeme Gadio, Coumba Mar <p>Although Senegalese women, like other women in Africa, are central to economic development and household survival, little has been done to improve working conditions, increase access to resources, and improve productivity. In part this is due to the scarcity of appropriate information on the full range of women's scarcity of appropriate information on the full range of women's roles (household, community, production) and in part to qualitative shortcomings in existing studies. That is, most studies focus on what women produce and how they produce and some even look at cultural constraints to economic roles. However, few studies address the broader, contextual variables and institutional constraints within which women operate; explore continuity and change in women's roles across generations of farmers; examine the linkages between women's roles, levels of production and access to resources, and relative decision making power; or step back from discipline -based concepts and theories to truly listen to women and study them from their own position. That is, few researchers construct variables by analyzing women's reality and by taking into account women's perceptions, concepts and definitions, values, and perspectives. That was the task of this research.</p><p>The focus is on Lebou-Wolof women farmers in Thiedem, a vegetable producing village in Senegal. Based on findings of an exploratory study carried out in 1993, dissertation research focused on three generations of women and compared the roles, relative power, and perceptions of women who were farmers exclusively with those who farm and market their produce, and of those who participate in self help organizations and those who do not. The general objective was to identify factors that have impacted women's roles, status, and relative decision making power, document how women cope with constraints and responsibilities, and understand women's roles. A survey of 48% of Thieudeme's households provided the study with background information. A sample of 209 women were drawn from these households. The sample was made up of women from three different generations and stratified by socio-economic status. Semi-structured in-depth interviews and life histories were conducted with the sample of women. This comparison of three generations of women farmers' roles in the past and in present day Thieudeme revealed many changes. Changes are taking place in productive and - to a lesser degree - reproductive roles, but also in the ways in which these women farmers are involved and organized in their communities. Changes in productive and reproductive roles can be related to various global, national and local factors such as the changing nature of local and national economies, severe drought, changes in demand for exports and imports, structural adjustment policies, devaluation, local and cultural beliefs.</p> 1998 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1217871703 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1217871703 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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Women's Changing Roles, Issues, and Decisionmaking: The Case of Lebou-Wolof Women Farmers in Thieudeme
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Women's Changing Roles, Issues, and Decisionmaking: The Case of Lebou-Wolof Women Farmers in Thieudeme
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