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Jackson, Cecile

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“…Her husband was not supportive of her participation on WUAs or other committees, but she explained that she withdrew primarily because the WUAs were no longer as functional as they had been in the early stages of settlement in the New Lands and not because of her husband's disapproval. This finding resonates with those of other researchers who remind us not to ignore the role women's agency can play in resisting and challenging existing norms and relations of power ( Jackson, 1998;Girard, 2014). Through their acts, note Bossenbroek & Zwarteveen (2014), women can challenge power relations and existing behavioral norms, and the investments that people make in ensuring that they can access water.…”

Section: Participation In Wuassupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Like Jackson (1998), our findings demonstrate that irrigation roles can simultaneously be both burdensome and rewarding for women. While women were able to reap benefits from participating in WUAs, particularly in the early stages of resettlement, and gain access to resources and training, they also had to endure increased workloads and reputational damage.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 70%

“…Like Jackson (1998) and Girard (2014), we found that female irrigators can maneuver social norms but still be affected negatively by them. The comparison between the Old and New Lands provided some important insights about the ways in which extended families may reinforce gender norms while resettlement as nuclear families may create opportunities for loosening of social norms.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 71%

“…Although gender norms play an important role in technology adoption, it is important to simultaneously emphasize that gender norms are never static. They are constantly being reproduced, adapted, contested and negotiated as part of everyday social interactions ( Jackson, 1998). Migration and resettlement, for example, may play an important role in changing gender norms.…”

Section: Irrigation Gender Norms Technologies and Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same?’

Najjar¹,

Baruah

Garhi

2019

Water Policy

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This paper explores how women and men participate in irrigation activities in Egypt, drawing from a survey administered to 200 men and 202 women and qualitative information from 150 interviews. Women participated in irrigation activities in 78% of the 402 households surveyed, suggesting that women are far more actively engaged in irrigation efforts in Egypt, and possibly in the wider MENA region, than is generally assumed. The diffusion of certain irrigation technologies such as drip, sprinkler and tatweer in recent years has made irrigation more socially acceptable for women to perform although some women had also been irrigating land long before these technologies became available. We identify land ownership, educational attainment, institutional support from government, donors and NGOs, and access to training in irrigational technologies as factors that enable women to optimally undertake irrigation. These factors enabled women to participate meaningfully in public institutions related to irrigation, such as water user associations (WUAs). Finally, we discovered that desire and ability to participate in WUAs declined dramatically for both women and men when institutional support was withdrawn or eroded. Thus, the paper concludes that we must look at a variety of social categories and relationships to understand women's involvement in irrigation and to identify ways to strengthen it.

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Section: Participation In Wuassupporting

confidence: 78%

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confidence: 70%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 71%

Section: Irrigation Gender Norms Technologies and Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same?’

Najjar¹,

Baruah

Garhi

2019

Water Policy

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“…For example, those that presume that only men are the farmers in families or communities (Demetriades and Esplen 2010) or that blindly promote the idea that in any given agrarian context women tend to be the most poor and most vulnerable (Jackson 1998; Chant 2010). Intersectional framings, however, give deeper attention to multiple facets of farmer identities and the way these facets come together to influence vulnerability of different people.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings

Thompson-Hall

Carr

Pascual

2016

Ambio

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Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of ‘men’ and ‘women’ as sole or principal divisions explaining the abilities of different people within a group to adapt to climate change, illustrates this problem. This framing of gender persists in spite of established bodies of knowledge that show how roles and responsibilities that influence a person´s ability to deal with climate-induced and other stressors emerge at the intersection of diverse identity categories, including but not limited to gender, age, seniority, ethnicity, marital status, and livelihoods. Here, we provide a review of relevant literature on this topic and argue that approaching vulnerability to climate change through intersectional understandings of identity can help improve adaptation programming, project design, implementation, and outcomes.

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Gender and collective action: motivations, effectiveness and impact

Pandolfelli

Meinzen‐Dick

Dohrn

2008

J of Intl Development

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Gender is often a key determinant of people's abilities to participate in collective action, yet there has been relatively little research on the links between gender and collective action. This article, and the ones that follow in this special issue, explore the intersection of these two fields. We present three entry points for a gendered analysis of collective action: motivations to engage in collective action; effectiveness of collective action (as defined by group objectives and the process by which the group works to meet those objectives); and impact of collective action on gender equity. We discuss each of these themes by highlighting key issues presented in the articles in this special issue. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Cited by 52 publications

References 37 publications

Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same?’

Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same?’

Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings

Gender and collective action: motivations, effectiveness and impact

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