The Socio-CuItural Dimensions of Gender: Women's Access to and Control over Productive Assets in South Wollo
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2010-07
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Addis Ababauniversity
Abstract
This research is carried out in Argoba Woreda of South Wollo Administrative Zone, Amhara
National Regional State. The research is carried out with the aim of scrutinizing the major sociocultural
stumbling blocks altering women's access to and control over productive assets impact.
The Researcher, in an effort of undertaking this research employs qualitative orientation through
basic qualitative survey techniques. Focus group discussion, individual interview, and
participatory observation used as basic data gathering tools accompanied by a guide checklist for
primary data and publi shed and unpublished documents for secondary information. Case stories
are also the central part of this work captured through audio recorder. Information acquired
through the above mentioned tools is analyzed through mainly textual formats and graphic and
tabular ways to correlate various concepts vis-a-vis simple statistical procedure like percentage,
mean and median.
The findings of the study shows that women's access to and control over productive assets is
seriously constrained by various social, cultural, economic, political, psychological and
ideological versions of analogy. Customary laws and patrilineal form of inheritance across
families accompanied by lack of an enabling political framework to implement proclamations
on the statutory law that allow women to have access to and control over productive assets are
the major stumbling blocks. Lack of access to financial services and rural credit is also another
impediment sidetracking women from engaging in productive income generating activities.
The study recommends few points as a way forward to tackling the predicaments dabbed on
women. The major recommendations include; launching of rural credit schemes accessible to
women, actions should have to be taken to implement the proclamation that allowed spousal
joint registration of properties, building women's awareness about statutory laws and the woreda
should take action to modify social and cultural attitudes and practices that disadvantage women,
their has to be a mechanism of linking the customary and the statutory laws for a symbiotic
mode of action, and research should have to be undertaken by multi-disciplinary teams at a
regular basis for a better understanding of women's situation and the gender aspect in general
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Control over Productive Assets in South Wollo