Female Autonomy, the Family, and Industrialization in Java

Wolf, Diane L.

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“…Despite this, Wolf (1988) found that the factory women she interviewed saved, on average, 30% of their income for use to redistribute to families in times of distress or to finance their own weddings. These studies suggest that cultural factors influence gendered saving behaviour, and cross-country variations are likely to be important.…”

Section: Gendered Determinants Of Saving Preferencesmentioning

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Does Gender have any Effect on Aggregate Saving? An empirical analysis

Seguino¹,

Floro²

2003

International Review of Applied Economics

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This study investigates the effects of gender on aggregate saving. We test the hypothesis that shifts in women's relative income, which can affect their bargaining power within the household, have a discernible impact on household saving and, by extension, gross domestic saving, due to differing saving propensities by gender. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for a set of semi-industrialised economies, covering the period 1975-95. The results indicate that, as some measures of women's relative income and bargaining power increase, gross domestic saving rates rise. The implied gender disparity in saving propensities may be linked to differences in saving motives based on gender roles, and well as divergent experiences of economic vulnerability. These findings suggest the importance of understanding gender differences in planning for savings mobilisation and in the formulation of financial and investment policies.

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Section: Gendered Determinants Of Saving Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Does Gender have any Effect on Aggregate Saving? An empirical analysis

Seguino¹,

Floro²

2003

International Review of Applied Economics

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“…First, jobs created by industrialization often detract from the status of women by eliminating craft production and replacing economic niches held by women. Wolf (1988) contended, however, that the availability of wage employment has improved that status of women in Java. Second, improved economic status may facilitate divorce for women, as has been argued regarding Western societies.…”

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Why is the Divorce Rate Declining in Indonesia?

Heaton

Cammack

Young

2001

J of Marriage and Family

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ࡗ Why is the Divorce Rate Declining in Indonesia?This article examines trends in marital dissolution in Indonesia. Analysis considers the impact of educational expansion, delayed marriage, urbanization, increasing employment before marriage, legislative change, and increased free choice in marriage on the decline in marital disruption. Trends such as delayed marriage and educational expansion account for about one third of the decline in marital dissolution. Moreover, factors associated with marital disruption are shifting in importance. In particular, age at marriage and marital duration are becoming less reliable predictors of marital stability, whereas education is becoming more important. We conclude that the shifting forces governing marital formation and dissolution in Indonesia have modified the linkages between the conjugal couple, broader kinship systems, and modes of economic support such that traditional patterns sustaining high levels of marital instability are no longer in effect.

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“…Given such poverty, 1 expected high remittances from factory wages to the family economy, an expectation strengthened by empirical research from all over the world on factory daughters and the family economy (Arrigo, 1980;Dublin, 1979;Hareven, 1982;Ong, 1987;Tilly and Scott, 1978;Salaff, 1981). My findings of a high degree of income retention rather than income pooling have been documented elsewhere (Wolf, 1988b). Unlike their Taiwanese counterparts who turn over 50 to 80 per cent of factory wages to families, these Javanese factory daughters controlled their own income, remitting little if anything from their weekly wages to the family till, and often asked their parents for money.…”

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Daughters, Decisions and Domination: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique of Household Strategies

Wolf

1990

Development and Change

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This article focuses upon the decision‐making process in the household with regard to young women and factory employment in Java and Taiwan, and critically examines to what extent these processes reflect household strategies. While Javanese daughters may seek factory employment against parents' wishes, Taiwanese daughters may be obliged to submit to parental decisions and work for years in order to contribute income. The concept of ‘household strategies’, however, inadequately describes both situations, masking relations of power, resistance and inequality within the household. The assumptions underlying the concept of household strategies and their broader analytical implications are explored, leading to the conclusion that a more differentiated view of the household is needed, taking power relations and struggles between genders and generations into account.

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Female Autonomy, the Family, and Industrialization in Java

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Does Gender have any Effect on Aggregate Saving? An empirical analysis

Does Gender have any Effect on Aggregate Saving? An empirical analysis

Why is the Divorce Rate Declining in Indonesia?

Daughters, Decisions and Domination: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique of Household Strategies

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