A Model of Gendered Production in Colonial Africa and Implications for Development in the Post-Colonial Period
This paper proposes a model to analyze the implications of colonial policies for gender inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa. The model emphasizes segmentation of production under complete specialization. It shows that the colonial production model, un...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/05/17686790/model-gendered-production-colonial-africa-implications-development-post-colonial-period http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15579 |
| Summary: | This paper proposes a model to analyze
the implications of colonial policies for gender inequality
in Sub-Saharan Africa. The model emphasizes segmentation of
production under complete specialization. It shows that the
colonial production model, underpinned by occupational job
segregation in the agricultural sector and gender bias in
the non-agricultural sector, exacerbated gender inequality
by limiting employment opportunities for women outside the
realm of home production and subsistence agriculture. Over
the past few decades, the resilience of parameters
underlying these models of colonial production has
heightened the risks of macroeconomic volatility in the
region, especially where the structural transformation from
low to high-value-added activities has remained elusive. |
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