DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Sub-Saharan Africa, 3 Women, Child Care
4 Dec 2013
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A study of the social construction of difference between men and woman and the relations that emerge from these constructions. Complicated by transgendered, inter-sexed, and lesbian/bisexual identities. Attitudes towards gender affect ideas and practices of development. A social system in which the male is the primary authority figure in social organization and economic decision making. Fathers and sons hold authority over women, children and property. Patrilineal (property and title are inherited by the males) Institutions of male rule and privilege and female subordination. Women preform 6% of the worlds work and produce 50% of the food but earn 10% of income and own 1% of property. Women"s nominal wages are 17% lower than men"s. 70% of people below the poverty line are women. Not unique to the south but often more pronounced. 1 in 3 women lack access to safe sanitation. 526 million women have no choice but to go to the toilet out in the open.
