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dc.creatorPala, Achola Okeyo
dc.date2011-09-23T15:00:05Z
dc.date2011-09-23T15:00:05Z
dc.date1976-03
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T16:41:23Z
dc.date.available2013-01-04T16:41:23Z
dc.date.issued04-01-13
dc.identifierPala, Achola Okeyo (1976) Women in rural development: report of a discussion group. Working paper no. 262, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
dc.identifierhttp://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/1143
dc.identifier316424
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11295/7579
dc.descriptionThis paper was prepared as the report of a discussion group participating in the Conference on Assembling and Collecting Data on the Participation of Women in Kenyan Society, held at the Nairobi School on August 11 to 15, 1975. It was agreed that the search for improvements in agriculture and in extension to rural women must take into account the complexity of rural society, the diverse activities of rural residents and the variety of their economic and nutritional needs. The principal concern of the group was to underscore the need for systematic and standardised collection of data which will more genuinely reflect women's participation in the economic activities which are the principal target of rural development. Five priority areas were identified in which the need for greater information on the role of women is especially urgent: accurate representation of the household unit, wage differentials, and their consequences for rural incomes, the sociological context of communal labour activities, access to extension and credit, and diversification and upgrading of non-farm activities. Finally, the need for an action-oriented research programme was stressed, in which work is carried out on several levels, coordinated and presented to a wide audience.
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInstitute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
dc.relationWorking Papers.;262
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.rightsInstitute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectRural Development
dc.subjectParticipation
dc.titleWomen in rural development: report of a discussion group
dc.typeSeries paper (non-IDS)


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