Research Catalog

Title

Rural development and women in Africa.

Publication

Geneva : International Labour Office, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• International Labour Office
• ILO Tripartite African Regional Seminar (1981 : Dakar, Senegal)
• ILO Tripartite African Regional Seminar on Rural Development and Women (1981 : Dakar, Senegal)

Description

v, 157 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Conference report including conference papers on the economic role of rural women in African rural development - covers women's role in food production and food processing, effect of agricultural mechanization and land reform, (leaving women landless), migration, income generating activities, traditional obstacles to female labour force participation, technology, administrative reform to achieve community participation, women's organizations, resettlement, and self employed woman workers.

Series Statement

WEP study

Uniform Title

• WEP study
• Women and social movements, international

Subject

• Women > Africa > Congresses
• Rural women > Africa > Congresses
• Women in rural development > Africa > Congresses
• Rural women > Africa

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Chiefly papers of the ILO Tripartite African Regional Seminar on Rural Development and Women, held at Dakar, Senegal on June 15-19, 1981.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Proceedings of the seminar -- Part II. Background papers -- Studies on rural women in Africa : An overview / Zenebeworke Tadesse -- Income-generating activities for rural women in Africa : Some successes and failures / Jasleen Dhamija -- Technologies for rural women's activities : problems and prospects in Sierra Leone / Yvette Stevens -- Rural women, their activities and technology in Ghana : An overview / Eugenia Date-Bah -- Women's access to resources in the Ivory Coast : Women and land in Adioukrou district / Aminata Traore -- The impact of territorial administration reform on the situation of women in Senegal / Fama Hane Ba [and others] -- Rural development planning and the sexual division of labour : A case study of a Moslem Hausa village in northern Nigeria / Richard Longhurst -- Capitalist development and perceptions of women in Arab-Muslim society : An illustration of peasant women in Gharb, Morocco / Fatim Mernissi -- Participation of women in rural development (Nigeria) / Jadesola O. Akande -- Rural women in a resettlement project : The case of theLibyan Arab Jamahiriya / Farida Allaghi -- A survey of African women petty traders and self-employed in town and country in south Africa / Daphne Sbongile Nene.

ISBN

9221036332

OCLC

• 15792643
• SCSB-10503336

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library