Urban Poverty, Livelihood, and Gender: Perceptions and Experiences of Porters in Accra, Ghana
Urban Poverty, Livelihood, and Gender: Perceptions and Experiences of Porters in Accra, Ghana
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城市贫困、生计和性别：加纳阿克拉搬运工的看法和经验
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2010
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M. Yeboah
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M. Yeboah
本文报告了在加纳阿克拉担任搬运工的40名男性和80名女性的访谈和小组讨论的结果。本文的目的是产生和分析关于这一群体贫困的性质和经历的新信息。男女搬运工自述的生计策略受其缺乏资本资产的影响。他们对贫穷的看法受到文化上接受的关于性别角色和性别意识形态的传统信念的影响。需要进一步的研究来证实这些结果，但它们已经对寻求解决排斥和不平等等关键问题的国家和国际政策产生了影响。
This paper reports the results of interviews and group discussions elicited from a sample of forty males and eighty females who were working as porters in Accra, Ghana. The purpose of the paper is to generate and analyze new information about the nature and experience of poverty among this group. Porters of both sexes self-report livelihood strategies are affected by their lack of capital assets. Their perception of poverty is shaped by culturally accepted traditional beliefs regarding gender roles and gender ideologies. Further research is called for to confirm these results, but they already have implications for national and international policies that seek to address critical issues of exclusion and inequality.