Gender relations and household economic planning in the rural Philippines.

From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Eder, James F. | Copyright information

In much of rural Southeast Asia today, single-income households organized by a sexual division of labour around one core economic activity, such as fishing or farming, have largely given way to households characterized by multiple income sources and occupations, such that the co-heads of a household often pursue occupationally distinct economic lives. For example, the male co-head may engage in vegetable gardening while the female co-head operates a small store, and so on. Within p...

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