Unseen Hands: Women's Farm Work in an Egyptian Village
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Social Research Center (SRC)
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Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research
Publication Date
Summer 1-7-1986
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https://doi.org/10.2307/3317197
Abstract
Data drawn from questionnaires, censuses, and interviews conducted in a village in the Egyptian Delta with a high proportion of smallholders, are compared to show ways women's work in agriculture reflected changes in local economic conditions from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. During these years, women's participation decreased in agricultural labor and increased in animal husbandry, as the village economy expanded. Also at issue is the extent of rural women's participation in production, which seems to be undercounted in national statistics. Factors suggested for women's underreporting of agricultural activity include the seasonality and occasional character of women's work in agriculture, the low prestige of women's work in cultivation, and the inclusion of cultivation as an aspect of women's roles as wives and daughters.
First Page
105
Last Page
114
Recommended Citation
Saunders, L. W., & Mehenna, S. (1986). Unseen Hands: Women’s Farm Work in an Egyptian Village. Anthropological Quarterly, 59(3), 105–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/3317197