| Project/Area Number |
09041091
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | National Women's Education Center |
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Principal Investigator |
OHNO Teruko National Women's Education Center, Director-General, 館長 (40271580)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ITO Machiko National Women's Education Center, Researcher, 事業課, 研究員 (00280511)
MEGURO Yoriko Sophia University, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40053631)
HARA Hiroko Ochanomizu University, Professor, ジェンダー研究センター, 教授 (90120831)
OSAWA Mari The University of Tokyo, Associate Professor, 社会科学研究所, 助教授 (50143524)
ITO Ruri Rikkyo University, Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (80184703)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1997)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥7,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥7,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,900,000)
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| Keywords | women / women and development / gender / empowerment / gender analysis / life course / Thailand / Nepal |
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| Research Abstract |
The obiectives of this program are (1) to clarify the Gender Analysis on Women/Gender and Development, and (2) to construct the contents and the means of the empowerment of women. Interdisciplinary and positive research was expected.
In 1996, we attempted to construct a gender analysis framework and made a pilot field research. On the basis of it, we conducted a field research in Nepal and Thailand in 1997. The field research focused on interviews with women and men by using a structured-questionnaire schedule to verify our gender analysis framework. We selected three sites in Nepal and two sites in Thailand where income-generating projects targeted on low income women were active. In each field sites, (1) questionnaire interviews with men and women, (2) interviews with key informants, (3) collection of related materials were conducted. Nepali and Thai students served as interviewers under the supervision of the investigators in Nepal and Thailand. The working languages were Nepali and Thai. We could get 142 valid responses in Nepal and 176 valid responses in Thailand.
After calculating the total responses, we held a joint research conference with Thai and Nepal teams to report and discuss on the results of the field research. It was intended in the questionnaire to examine the actual situation of project activities, marriage and family, productive activities, daily lives and daily works, cash income, and progress/growth/development and to find possible ways in which women may achieve the empowerment themselves. As the result, it became clear that the important terms are women gaining cash incomes, participating in decision making and gaining trust from their family/community members in the achievement process of empowerment. As the factor of influencing above things, the educational level has been pointed out from a result of Thai research, and jaat (caste) from a result of Nepalese research.
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