Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-31-2012
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Recent research underscores the continued importance of gender in rural Africa. Analysis of interactions within households is becoming more sophisticated and continues to reject the unitary model. There is some evidence of discriminatory treatment of girls relative to boys, although the magnitudes of differential investments in health and schooling are not large and choices seem quite responsive to changes in opportunity costs. Social norms proscribing and prescribing male and female economic behavior remain substantial, extending into many domains, especially land tenure. Gender constructions are constantly evolving, although there is little evidence of rapid, transformative change in rural areas.
Recommended Citation
Kevane, M. (2012). Gendered production and consumption in rural Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(31), 12350–12355.
Comments
Copyright © 2012 National Academy of Sciences. This is the author accepted manuscript. For the published version go to https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1003162108.