Have Men Become the Weaker Sex? Changing Life Situations in Kisii District, Kenya
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies
- Vol. 30 (2) , 237-253
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00010703
Abstract
The ‘discovery’ of third-world women and their situation followed in the wake of research by feminists in western societies. In the late 1960s, Ester Boserup documented that especially African rural women had experienced a major increase in their workload during this century; they had become the main producers not only of subsistence food but also of cash crops.Keywords
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