Challenging Perceptions about Men, Women, and Forest Product Use: A Global Comparative Study
利用多案例数据集，检验了关于男性和女性在林产品采集、管理和使用中角色的常见假设，发现存在显著的性别分化，但男性对农村生计的贡献比以往报告更为重要和多样化，且在不同热带地区存在差异。
This study uses a multi-case dataset to question current assumptions about the gender differentiation of forest product use. We test some of the commonly held ideas on how men and women access, manage, and use different forest products. Overall, we found significant gender differentiation in the collection of forest products, which seems to support the claim that there are distinctive “male” and “female” roles associated with the collection of forest products. However, we also found that men play a much more important and diverse role in the contribution of forest products to rural livelihoods than previously reported, with strong differences across tropical Asia, Africa, and Latin America.