The Balance of Power in Household Decision-Making: Encouraging News on Gender in Southern Sulawesi
分析了南苏拉威西家庭内部决策中的性别问题,发现女性参与决策程度高且具有民主元素,但需关注女性决策领域、男性参与照料和女性自主权提升。
Analyses of intra-household decision-making in Sulawesi are linked to gender issues shown to affect involvement in landscape management. These include agriculture, food, money, life chances, and attitudes toward domestic violence. The picture portrayed is encouraging, showing the social sophistication of a group often marginalized: This group shows considerable female involvement in decision-making and strongly democratic elements. We identify three issues that need greater attention—for equitable landscape management to result: women’s spheres of decision-making must be ascertained and taken into account, men’s involvement in care needs to expand, and women’s agency requires enhancement and external support.