Issues in Woman's Role in Economic Development: Critique and Alternatives

Abstract

This paper explores issues and hypotheses concerned with women's work in developing economies. The relationships among agricultural labor, marketing, and trading activity rates in traditional and modernizing economies, as proposed by Boserup, are not supported by the data. Alternative hypotheses including additional variablescontrol of the product of women's labor, extent of work and leisure, domestic work, educational opportunities, and literacy as a prerequisite of modern sector jobsexplain the dilemma ofAAfrican women as well as the differential employment rates of women in modernizing economies. The problem of cross-cultural models of women's work, the economic contributions of women, and the effects of women's work on women's lives is discussed.

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