Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana
Many stylized facts about women in agriculture have been repeated for decades. Did nothing really change? Is some of this conventional wisdom simply maintained over time, or has it always been inaccurate? We use four rounds of cross‐sectional data from Ghana to assess some of the facts and to evalua...
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| author | Lambrecht, Isabel B. Schuster, Monica Asare Samwini, Sarah Pelleriaux, Laura |
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| description | Many stylized facts about women in agriculture have been repeated for decades. Did nothing really change? Is some of this conventional wisdom simply maintained over time, or has it always been inaccurate? We use four rounds of cross‐sectional data from Ghana to assess some of the facts and to evaluate whether gender patterns have changed over time. We focus on five main themes: land, cropping patterns, market participation, agricultural inputs, and employment. We add to the literature by showing new facts and evidence for more than 20 years. Results show that stylized facts do not always hold, and that some of these “facts” change over time. We find significant variation in the extent of (changes in) gender discrepancies across themes, different agro‐ecological zones, ethnicities, household types, and women's role in the household. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1465642025-12-08T10:29:22Z Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana Lambrecht, Isabel B. Schuster, Monica Asare Samwini, Sarah Pelleriaux, Laura land access role of women gender cropping patterns labour farm inputs markets feminization agricultural development off-farm employment longitudinal studies Many stylized facts about women in agriculture have been repeated for decades. Did nothing really change? Is some of this conventional wisdom simply maintained over time, or has it always been inaccurate? We use four rounds of cross‐sectional data from Ghana to assess some of the facts and to evaluate whether gender patterns have changed over time. We focus on five main themes: land, cropping patterns, market participation, agricultural inputs, and employment. We add to the literature by showing new facts and evidence for more than 20 years. Results show that stylized facts do not always hold, and that some of these “facts” change over time. We find significant variation in the extent of (changes in) gender discrepancies across themes, different agro‐ecological zones, ethnicities, household types, and women's role in the household. 2018-09-27 2024-06-21T09:07:32Z 2024-06-21T09:07:32Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146564 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146458 Limited Access Wiley Lambrecht, Isabel; Schuster, Monica; Asare Samwini, Sarah; and Pelleriaux, Laura. 2018. Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana. Agricultural Economics 49(6): 691-710. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12453 |
| spellingShingle | land access role of women gender cropping patterns labour farm inputs markets feminization agricultural development off-farm employment longitudinal studies Lambrecht, Isabel B. Schuster, Monica Asare Samwini, Sarah Pelleriaux, Laura Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana |
| title | Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana |
| title_full | Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana |
| title_short | Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana |
| title_sort | changing gender roles in agriculture evidence from 20 years of data in ghana |
| topic | land access role of women gender cropping patterns labour farm inputs markets feminization agricultural development off-farm employment longitudinal studies |
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