Volume 15, Issue 1
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Measuring women's work: methodological and conceptual issues in Latin America
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY The issue of the concepts and methods used in measuring women's work has been an ever?increasing preoccupation in the Latin American region Wainerman and Recchini de Lates [1981] have shown the difficulties that ... -
Women's solidarity – and divisions among women
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY This article highlights the importance of understanding the dynamics of commonality and conflicts of interest among women for researchers grass roots activists and policy makers. Women do not constitute a homogeneous ... -
Rural women: issues for research, policy and organisation for gender equality
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Measuring time allocation, decision?making and agrarian changes affecting rural women: examples from recent research in Indonesia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY In small?scale research on rural women a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches can serve as a check on the biases inherent in each method. Quantitative data in themselves can rarely explain anything ... -
Some thoughts on the life story method in labour history and research on rural women
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY Some social scientists see life?story interviews as the best method to obtain answers to normative and unquantitiable questions, expecially in women's research in this article a historian draws on her own research ... -
Research methodologies appropriate to rapid appraisal: a Chinese experience
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY Experiences in China suggest the feasibility and value of rapid appraisal will be determined by the methodological constraints operating in the society under investigation and the scope and focus of the proposed ... -
Important issues for feminist nutrition research – a case study from the savanna of West Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY Nutrition education usually aims to change the practices of individual mothers. It may divert attention from real problems, increase anxiety or be dangerously inappropriate. This article argues that nutritionists ... -
Rural development and women's liberation: caste, class and gender in a grass?roots organisation in Tamil Nadu, South India
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY This article deals with the commection between class and gender issues in the context of the organisational history of a movement of landless Harijans. The author challenges the conventional definition of development ... -
Women, employment and the family: report on a colloquium comparing the women's movement and government legislation for gender equality in Britain and Vietnam
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY This is an account of a colioquium on Women, employment and the family held in Hanoi, March 14?24, 1983 jointly organised by the Subordination of Women cluster IDS, and the Vietnamese Social Sciences Research ... -
Future rapid appraisal work of the IDS women's cluster
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)
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