Dissertation Research: The Effects of Infertility on Status and Access to Resources Among WaMakonde Women of Tanzania

这个项目涉及加州大学戴维斯分校的一名人类学专业学生的论文研究，研究不孕不育对非洲坦桑尼亚社会女性地位的影响。这项提案将检验这样一种假设，即不育女性会因为离婚、缺乏资源和普遍缺乏威望而承受婚姻压力，这取决于女性在当地亲属网络中的地位。此外，该提案还将探讨童工在其母亲一般地位地位中的作用。方法包括对整个村庄的调查样本，对村庄妇女分层的更深入的访谈，以及时间分配研究。这项研究之所以重要，是因为非洲的人口增长率非常高，并被认为是一个社会，在这个社会中，群体福利高于个人福利。这种精细的研究将梳理出女性声望高和低的原因，因为它们与她们有孩子的数量有关。我们知识的进步将对人口规划者有用，他们必须设计出当地人民可以接受的限制生育的政策。此外，它增加了我们对世界这一重要区域的专门知识。

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of California-Davis, studying the effects of infertility on the status of women in a Tanzanian society of Africa. The proposal will test the hypothesis that infertile women will undergo marital stress because of divorce, lack of resources, and general lack of prestige, subject to the women's' position in local kin networks. In addition the proposal will look at the role of children's labor in their mother's general status position. Methods include a survey sample of a complete village, more in-depth interviews of a stratified subsample of women of the village, and a time allocation study. This research is important because Africa has a very high population growth rate and is known as containing societies in which the group welfare is promoted above that of individuals. This sort of fine-grained research will tease apart the causes of high and low prestige among women as they relate to the number of children they have. The advance in our knowledge will be useful to population planners who must design policies to limit reproduction which are acceptable to the local population. In addition it adds to our expertise about this important region of the world.