Women's Paid Work and Intimate Partner Violence: Insights from Tanzania
研究通过2009年对坦桑尼亚达累斯萨拉姆和姆贝亚女性市场商贩的半结构化访谈，发现非正规部门工作虽未完全增强女性自主权，但获得收入减少了因向男性要钱引发的冲突和暴力。
Theoretical and empirical research provide conflicting views on whether women who do paid work are less at risk from violence by an intimate partner in low- and middle-income countries. Economic household-bargaining models propose increased access to monetary resources will enhance women's “agency” and hence their bargaining power within the household, which reduces their vulnerability to intimate-partner violence. Feminist theorists also argue, however, that culture, context, and social norms can impede women's ability to access and benefit from employment. This study uses semi-structured interviews conducted in 2009 to explore the implications of paid work among women market traders in Dar es Salaam and Mbeya, Tanzania. While in this sample, informal-sector work did not result in women being able to fully exercise agency, their access to money did have a positive effect on their lives and reduced one major source of conflict and trigger for violence: that of negotiating money from men.