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| Title: | Women's Status and Cultural Expression: Changing Gender Relations and Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe |
| Author: | Riphenburg, Carol |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Africa Today |
| Volume: | 44 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 33-50 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | gender relations economic policy women Law, Human Rights and Violence Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Education and Oral Traditions Health and Nutrition Women's Issues Development and Technology Economics and Trade Cultural Roles economics Marital Relations and Nuptiality Family Life Status of Women Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4187137 |
| Abstract: | In 1991, Zimbabwe introduced an economic structural adjustment programme (ESAP). Although gender aspects were not considered in planning for the implementation of the ESAP, evidence shows that, in fact, economic developments have been determined largely by gender and that the ESAP has had differential effects on Zimbabwean men and women. In this analysis, the level and type of economic development - that is, a low-income country in economic difficulty that necessitates the adoption of a structural adjustment programme - serves as the independent variable and is examined in terms of its impact on four aspects of a framework of women's status adopted from Janet Giele (1977). The areas under consideration are family, education, health and control of sexuality, and cultural expression. The study demonstrates that the consequences of the ESAP are gendered and that women have borne a major share of the transitional costs of adjustment thus far. Note, ref. |
