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| Title: | The Women of A Ghanaian Village: A Study of Social Change |
| Author: | Dei, George J.S. |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Periodical: | African Studies Review |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | September |
| Pages: | 121-145 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ghana |
| Subjects: | social change subsistence economy women Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade Labor and Employment Cultural Roles economics agriculture |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/524769 |
| Abstract: | An important feature of African village economies in the 1980s and 1990s has been the initiatives of local people in responding to the severe contraction in national economies and the structural changes introduced as part of the World Bank/IMF-inspired structural adjustment programmes (SAPs). This paper documents the responses of women in Ayirebi, a rural location in the forest zones of southeastern Ghana, to the economic downturn of the early 1980s and the economic expansion of the past few years. It argues that, in the early part of the 1980s, Ayirebi women turned to little-used subsistence strategies and communally organized responses to survive economic hardship. They relied on local resources to provide household sustenance, they found local substitutes for imported products, they replaced migrant male labour in domestic production. In the 1990s the local economy is steadily being revived. Women have taken up new economic challenges and are reinvesting earnings from rural agricultural production in other financial pursuits. Economic independence and the assumption of new responsibilities are providing some women with a greater say in household and community matters. The paper is based on research carried out in 1982-1983, 1989, 1990 and 1991-1992. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
