Women's involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

Kyoko Kusakabe

Development in Practice, 2003, vol. 13, issue 4, 333-345

Abstract: In Northeast Thailand, women are heavily involved in small-scale aquaculture. However, as aquaculture becomes more intensive, women are in charge of less. Women's decision-making power in aquaculture and in the household is stronger when women have greater material resources and knowledge than their husbands; and the case studies on which the article draws show that what is important is not how much women have, but how much they have in relation to their husbands. The case studies also illustrate that women's gender roles and responsibilities, as well as the social expectations placed upon them, limit what they will gain through aquaculture. In intensive aquaculture in particular, women are expected to invest all their resources in this activity in order to sustain the family enterprise.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1080/0961452032000112392

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