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Title:Wage earner and mother: compatibility of roles on a Cameroon plantation
Author:Delancey, V.ISNI
Book title:Women, education, and modernization of the family in West Africa
Year:1981
Pages:1-21
Language:English
Geographic term:Cameroon
Subjects:mothers
women workers
agricultural workers
Abstract:Report of a study which aimed at determining whether or not wage-employed women at the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), Tole Tea Estate, experience compatibility or incompatibility between their roles as wage employees and as mothers. Data for the study were collected in 1975-1976 from the population of 175 married women who were living with their husbands, and who were employed for wages at the Tole Tea Estate. Some data were also collected from the population of 53 nonwage-employed women who were married and living with their husbands in the same location. The data give strong support to the position that under the relatively favourable conditions provided by the CDC personnel policies and the government labour and social insurance legislation, it is possible for female employees to work for wages outside their homes without having unsolvable problems of role compatibility. Bibliogr.
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