Gender norms and relations: Implications for agency in coastal livelihoods
Despite advances within development and feminist studies, many livelihood initiatives proceed gender-blind. This application of GENNOVATE attempted to challenge that trend in the Pacific. We investigated how gender norms and relations influence agency (i.e., the availability of choice and capacity t...
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| author | Lawless, Sarah Cohen, Philippa J. McDougall, Cynthia Orirana, Gace Siota, Faye Doyle, Kate |
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| description | Despite advances within development and feminist studies, many livelihood initiatives proceed gender-blind. This application of GENNOVATE attempted to challenge that trend in the Pacific. We investigated how gender norms and relations influence agency (i.e., the availability of choice and capacity to exercise choice) in Solomon Islands. We find that men are able to pursue a broader range of livelihood activities than women who were constrained by individual perceptions of risk and socially prescribed physical mobility restraints. However, our findings challenge the broad proposition that livelihood diversification leads to improvements for agency as women’s more immediate freedoms were limited by intensified time and labour demands. We suggest that better accounting for these gendered differences not only improves livelihood outcomes, but also presents opportunity to catalyse the re-negotiation of gender norms and relations; thereby promoting greater individual agency. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1067492024-06-26T09:37:28Z Gender norms and relations: Implications for agency in coastal livelihoods Lawless, Sarah Cohen, Philippa J. McDougall, Cynthia Orirana, Gace Siota, Faye Doyle, Kate gender women agriculture Despite advances within development and feminist studies, many livelihood initiatives proceed gender-blind. This application of GENNOVATE attempted to challenge that trend in the Pacific. We investigated how gender norms and relations influence agency (i.e., the availability of choice and capacity to exercise choice) in Solomon Islands. We find that men are able to pursue a broader range of livelihood activities than women who were constrained by individual perceptions of risk and socially prescribed physical mobility restraints. However, our findings challenge the broad proposition that livelihood diversification leads to improvements for agency as women’s more immediate freedoms were limited by intensified time and labour demands. We suggest that better accounting for these gendered differences not only improves livelihood outcomes, but also presents opportunity to catalyse the re-negotiation of gender norms and relations; thereby promoting greater individual agency. 2019-12 2020-01-28T05:32:39Z 2020-01-28T05:32:39Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106749 en Open Access Springer Lawless, S., Cohen, P., McDougall, C. et al. (2019). Gender norms and relations: Implications for agency in coastal livelihoods. Maritime Studies 18(3): 347-358. |
| spellingShingle | gender women agriculture Lawless, Sarah Cohen, Philippa J. McDougall, Cynthia Orirana, Gace Siota, Faye Doyle, Kate Gender norms and relations: Implications for agency in coastal livelihoods |
| title | Gender norms and relations: Implications for agency in coastal livelihoods |
| title_full | Gender norms and relations: Implications for agency in coastal livelihoods |
| title_fullStr | Gender norms and relations: Implications for agency in coastal livelihoods |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender norms and relations: Implications for agency in coastal livelihoods |
| title_short | Gender norms and relations: Implications for agency in coastal livelihoods |
| title_sort | gender norms and relations implications for agency in coastal livelihoods |
| topic | gender women agriculture |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106749 |
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