Women's Economic Activities, Household Decision Making & Child Welfare in Manabi, Ecuador

妇女的经济活动、家庭决策

• 批准号: 9514818
• 负责人: Kathleen DeWalt
• 金额: $ 9.67万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-06-01 至 1999-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9514818&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Women; Economic; Activities; Household; Decision

Economic development projects in the underdeveloped world after World War 2 focused on generating income for men, assuming that the men would distribute the benefits to women and children. After decades of experiences development specialists realized that the income frequently was not fairly distributed -- the welfare of women and children was often ignored. For the past 20 years projects have attempted to focus on women as the primary caretakers of children. This project evaluates one form of development project -- a cooperative food processing plant -- in its impact on women's abilities to control resources and improve the well-being of their children. This award to the University 0f Pittsburgh supports an ethnographic project to study the effects of poor rural Ecuadorian women's participation in economic development projects on their household economic and health well-being. The research will take place in four communities, two which were the sites of cooperative development projects, and two which were not. The project will document the control of income and other resources by women, examine household decision making concerning household resources, and study the impact of participation in income generating activities on the health and nutritional status of women and children. The hypothesis to be tested is that activity by women in cooperative projects positively affects the well-being of their children. Both ethnographic and survey data will be gathered on a broad range of variables including social participation, community investment in social welfare and health, individual perceptions of the importance and social worth of men and women, as well as anthropometric and nutritional data, to assess the welfare of a sample of households in the study villages. This research is important because economic development can not be successful without significant improvement in the welfare of women and children. New knowledge which assesses the significance of different strategies of improving welfare will be useful to planners and governments in designing better ways to improve rural welfare.

第二次世界大战后，欠发达世界的经济发展项目的重点是为男性产生收入，假设这些男人会将福利分配给妇女和儿童。 经过数十年的经验发展，发展专家意识到，收入经常不公平分配 - 妇女和儿童的福利经常被忽略。 在过去的20年中，项目一直试图将妇女作为儿童的主要看护人。 该项目评估了一种合作食品加工厂的一种形式的发展项目，以影响妇女控制资源和改善子女福祉的能力。 该大学奖项0F匹兹堡支持一个民族志项目，以研究厄瓜多尔贫困农村妇女参与经济发展项目对其家庭经济和健康福祉的影响。 这项研究将在四个社区进行，两个社区是合作开发项目的地点，而不是两个。 该项目将记录妇女对收入和其他资源的控制，检查有关家庭资源的家庭决策，并研究参与收入产生活动对妇女和儿童健康和营养状况的影响。 要检验的假设是，妇女在合作项目中的活动对子女的福祉产生了积极影响。 人种学和调查数据都将在各种变量上收集，包括社会参与，社区对社会福利和健康的投资，男人和女性的重要性和社会价值的个人看法，以及人体测量和营养数据，以评估研究村庄中家庭样本的福利。 这项研究很重要，因为如果没有显着改善妇女和儿童的福利，经济发展将无法成功。 评估改善福利策略的重要性的新知识将对计划者和政府设计更好的方法来改善农村福利。