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| Autor/inn/en | Eloundou-Enyegue, Parfait M.; Calvès, Anne Emmanuèle |
|---|---|
| Titel | Till marriage do us part: education and remittances from married women in Africa. |
| Quelle | In: Comparative education review, 50 (2006) 1, S. 1-20Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
| Beigaben | Literaturangaben |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0010-4086 |
| Schlagwörter | Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Chancengleichheit; Familienbeziehungen; Familiengröße; Frau; Frauenforschung; Gleichberechtigung; Einkommen; Finanzen; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Frauenbildung; Afrika; Benin; Malawi; Mali; Ruanda; Sambia; Simbabwe; Uganda |
| Abstract | The authors provide an analysis of the remittance argument for gender inequality in education in the sub-Saharan countries by addressing the following two questions: What long-term consequences will follow from increased educational attainment by women? and Can equalizing education eventually alter the balance of power within the household? Using their own survey of Cameroon, supplemented by secondary survey data from seven other African countries, the authors draw the following conclusions from their empirical investigations: First, women appear to have a substantial capacity to remit, whether this capacity is measured by leverage in fosterage assistance to kin or by the control of own earnings. Second, within countries, women's individual capacity to remit increases with their education level, especially when they are employed. Third, a comparison of West and East African countries shows an apparent paradox because women's control of resources is greater in West Africa, despite the lower levels of female education in that region. Taken together, the authors findings seem inconsistent with an interpretation of marriage as a resource takeover. Even when women are symbolically incorporated into their husband's lineage through a new residence and bride name, they have leverage in decisions about fosterage and the use of their earnings. This leverage gives them a capacity to assist their relatives. It does not appear that women so fully drift into the husband's lineage as to become an unreliable source of remittances for their families of origin. (DIPF/Orig./Ba.). |
| Erfasst von | DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main |
| Update | 2006/4 |
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