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Gender Roles and Practices in Natural Resource Management Among the Kilosa Maasai in Tanzania

Tanzania Journal of Development Studies

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Title Gender Roles and Practices in Natural Resource Management Among the Kilosa Maasai in Tanzania
 
Creator Massoi, Lucy W; MZUMBE
 
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Description This article empirically describes gender roles and practices in natural resourcemanagement among the pastoral Maasai society of Kilosa, Tanzania. Through aqualitative approach, a descriptive case study design was adopted to collect and analysedata using content analysis. Results show that gender roles and practice in landmanagement is gender differentiated. There is a strong patriarchal system in Maasaisocieties that govern access to, and use of, land. Women have limited access/ownershipto land and have to seek permission from men to use land. In this regard, the hardesthit are women who use land without having independent access or muscles fornegotiating due to existing norms and values that license their exclusion. The articleargues that unless customary practices are addressed, women issues will remainunchanged given the presence of a male-centred customary practice built on strongpatriarchal system that side-lines women in land management.
 
Publisher UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
 
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Date 2019-09-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjds/article/view/2955
 
Source Tanzania Journal of Development Studies; Vol 17, No 1 (2019): Tanzania Journal of Development Studies; 102-116
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08569922
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjds/article/view/2955/2960
 
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