Gender, Decision-Making and Farm Practice Change: An Action Learning Intervention in Myanmar
Publisher: Journal of Rural Studies
Author(s): M. Carnegie, P.S. Cornish, K.K. Htwe, and N.N. Htwe
Date: 2020
Topics: Gender, Livelihoods
Countries: Myanmar
A dominant discourse in Myanmar characterises men with ‘farmer’ identities while women, who also undertake farm work, are seen as farm ‘helpers’ and ‘labourers’. We investigated the factors underlying this discourse, exploring gender norms underpinning gender roles, patterns of gendered decision-making, and women's perceptions of gender disadvantage as one component of a study of farmer participatory crop benchmarking (FPCB) in Myanmar's Central Dry Zone.