Influence of women's income generation on intra-household decision making: Rethinking income generating activities for women in the developing countries

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16H07155
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Gender
Research Institution	Bunkyo Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	KAIDA KIYOMI 文京学院大学, 外国語学部, 助教 (20783608)
Project Period (FY)	2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords	ジェンダー / 世帯内意思決定 / 東北タイ / ジェンダーと開発 / 世帯内資源分配 / 母系社会
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study aims to examine the influence of women’s income generation on the intra-household decision making in rural areas in the North-east Thailand. There is a tradition that a couple move to the wife’s natal family when they married, and a wife steadily keep the network with her natal family and inherit land. Compare to the 1990's, negative perceptions on divorced or non-married women are almost disappeared, traditional gender norms are also rarely experienced, and opportunity of women’s migration and mobility are increased. Women are recognized as household members who contribute a lot to the household with income by migration work, then they decide the use of income in the household. With the income, women replace their traditional farm work to the paid workers, their child caring to mothers in village. On the other hand, mothers keep lives in village with remittance by daughters. Then daughters will be handed over the village life when they retire from the migration work.