Gender in Latin America

Chant, Sylvia; Craske, Nikki

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“…In part this owes to the disjointed nature of research. Most studies of gender and poverty focus on adult women (and to a lesser extent, adult men) (see, for example, Chant with Craske, 2003;McIlwaine and Datta, 2004), while research on livelihoods among young people tends to neglect gender dimensions insofar as it often concentrates on paid labour and thereby underplays the householdbased work performed by girls (see Lloyd-Evans, 2002;Subrahmanian, 2002). How the working practices of young people become gendered also remains underresearched whether from viewpoints that stress socialisation through cultural practices or parental perceptions of the quality of education on the one hand, or attempts to build economic models that link decision-making, poverty and child labour on the other (see Ray, 2000;Delap, 2001;Bhalotra, 2003;Harper et al, 2003).…”

Section: Rationale and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana and the Gambia

Chant

Jones

2005

Children's Geographies

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In this paper we report on preliminary fieldwork conducted in Ghana and The Gambia on the interrelationships among youth, gender and livelihoods. We examine how policy in developing countries, typically characterised as related to child labour or education, needs to emphasise the linkage across processes that affect young people. We argue that policy will be improved if young people are given voice to express how work, education, social networks, and culturally-bound notions of responsibility are linked and how they perceive the opportunities and constraints on their 'life chances'.

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Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana and the Gambia

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2005

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“…For instance, in 1994 the real minimum urban wage was only 42 percent of its 1980 value (Chant 2003). Following the December 1994 devaluation, a similar pattern arose.…”

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Fairness and Wages in Mexico's Maquiladora Industry: An Empirical Analysis of Labor Demand and the Gender Wage Gap

Charles

2011

Review of Social Economy

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In 2001, China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the US recession put pressure on maquiladora workers' wages. The result was an increase in the gender wage gap. At the firm level, this increase is not discriminatory, in the sense that the lower income entitlement for women is socially accepted at the household level. This paper uses Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis to explain the gender wage gap as a matter of “fair-wage constraints” that differ across genders, which are, in turn, due to evolving social norms of fairness in reservation wages for men and women within households. Empirical evidence for changes in gender wages gaps across industries between 1997 and 2006 is found to be consistent with this argument.fairness, wages, gender, maquiladora industry,

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“…Researchers have suggested that male out-migration presents opportunities for women to take on new tasks and learn new skills, which can transform gender relations and improve women's status and empowerment (Connell 1984, Chant and Craske 2003, Mahler and Pessar 2006. However, as Hanson (2010) argues, context matters.…”

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“…Mobility, 'the movement of people from one place to another in the course of everyday life … the daily rounds of activities such as paid and unpaid work, leisure, socializing and shopping' (Hanson 2010, p. 7), is linked to empowerment in many migration studies. For example, in some cases, male out-migration leads to changes in the gendered division of labour, which, in turn, can lead to an increase in women's mobility, autonomy and overall empowerment (Connell 1984, Grasmuck and Pessar 1991, Chant 1997, Bever 2002, Chant and Craske 2003. In the husbands' absence, women may become de facto heads-of-households, which requires them to take on new tasks, develop new skills, realize new opportunities (Connell 1984, Boehm 2008 and have more decision-making power and access to and control over resources (Kabeer 1999, Yunus 1999, Quisumbing 2003.…”

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Gendered Mobility and Morality in a South-Eastern Mexican Community: Impacts of Male Labour Migration on the Women Left Behind

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Based on research conducted in a migrant-sending community in south-eastern Mexico, we find that male out-migration has forced women to take on labour tasks that are associated with new spatial and mobility patterns. While these patterns have potential for increased empowerment for women, they also call the women's morality into question, resulting in a policing of the women's behaviour, and a simultaneous restriction of their mobility, by themselves and others. Therefore, we find male labour out-migration has resulted in contradictory changes in women's mobility, with ambiguous results for women's gender empowerment.

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Gender in Latin America

Cited by 131 publications

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Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana and the Gambia

Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana and the Gambia

Fairness and Wages in Mexico's Maquiladora Industry: An Empirical Analysis of Labor Demand and the Gender Wage Gap

Gendered Mobility and Morality in a South-Eastern Mexican Community: Impacts of Male Labour Migration on the Women Left Behind

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