Verschuur C. (2019). From the centre to the margins and back again: women in agriculture at the ILO. International development policy, 01/06/2019, n. 11, p. 152-176.
https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.3068
https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.3068
Titre : | From the centre to the margins and back again: women in agriculture at the ILO (2019) |
Auteurs : | C. Verschuur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | International development policy (n. 11, June 2019) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 152-176 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 14 - SOCIOLOGIE ; 14.6 - Rôle de la FemmeThésaurus IAMM FEMME ; PARTICIPATION DE LA FEMME ; ROLE DES FEMMES ; AGRICULTURE ; SYSTEME DE PRODUCTION ; ECONOMIE RURALE ; MAIN D'OEUVRE SALARIEE ; DIVISION DU TRAVAIL ; INEGALITE SOCIALE ; EXCLUSION SOCIALE ; ZONE RURALE ; DISCRIMINATION FONDEE SUR LE SEXE |
Résumé : | Women in agriculture play a particularly important role in the economy. But their workas peasants and as agricultural wage earnerstheir knowledge, their place in agricultural systems of production and their contribution to global prosperity have only been recognised in recent years, or still lack significant recognition. With changes in systems of production that are related to globalisation, the marginalisation and the workload of women in agriculture has often increased due to the perpetuation of an unequal sexual division of work in agriculture, and due to unequal access to the workforce and to agricultural inputs, technologies, credit schemes and land. One of the main constraints faced by female peasants and agricultural wage earners is the continuous and increasing reproductive work, which rests disproportionately on the most excluded women. Feminist studies have theorised and underlined the centrality of social reproduction, deconstructing what womens work is and contesting the binary distinction between production and reproduction. They have, further, shown how the prosperity of the global economy benefits from womens work, including subsistence production where women play a major role. The focus on women in agriculture has been a starting point for gender and development studies. The International Labour Organizations (ILO) programmes on women in rural areas have included groundbreaking research, the recognition of womens unpaid and paid work, and support for womens empowerment in grass-roots organisations. After having disappeared to the margins, rural women are back at the centre of the ILOs discussion on rural economies in recent years. The approach is now guided by the Decent Work agenda, which prevails globally in the ILO. We will explore how the ILOs programmes on rural economies and gender have evolved since the Organizations inception. We will also consider how the ILOs analysis and programmes directed at the work of the most excluded women in agriculture could contribute to informing the Decent Work Agenda and changing the organisation of social reproduction and livelihoods. |
Cote : | En ligne |
URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.3068 |