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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Female labour in the process of transformation: seen in the example of Botswana
Author:Hasenjürgen, B.
Year:1990
Periodical:African Development Perspectives Yearbook
Volume:2
Pages:695-708
Language:English
Geographic term:Botswana
Subjects:women's employment
women's work
Abstract:The current political, economic and social position of women in Botswana is determined by numerous factors, amongst which the sexual division of labour in agriculture, the migration of men to urban centres in South Africa and Botswana, and the growing integration of women into the market economy or into various labour markets, over and above rural markets, are of particular significance. Tswana women may combine several ways of earning income, on the one hand through subsistence farming, on the other through labour in the marketing area. The latter includes trading with mostly homemade products, as well as an increasing participation in wage labour in the informal and formal sector. Nonetheless there is still a clear sexual division within the labour market. Women themselves view the process of so-called modernization as a complicated and ambivalent one, whose ultimate outcome remains to be established. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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