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Title:Voluntary Associations and Social Mobility among West African Women
Author:Little, Kenneth L.
Year:1970
Periodical:Canadian Journal of African Studies
Volume:4
Issue:2
Pages:275-288
Language:English
Geographic term:West Africa
Subjects:women
associations
social mobility
Women's Issues
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/484202
Abstract:The author emphasizes that as urbanization is a comprehensive social process it is impossible within the space of this article to deal with all the implications of voluntary associations for West African women's contemporary position. Attention has therefore been confined to one important aspect of the urbanization process: the part played by voluntary associations in the women's social mobility, now a familiar phenomenon because the contemporary social system is sufficiently fluid and 'open' to stimulate social ambition. An initial difficulty is that, education being an important requirement for upward mobility, women are at a disadvantage. However, by forming voluntary associations and organizing themselves in these ways for relevant objectives West African women have largely been able to offset their position's educational drawbacks. Notes.
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