Literature Database on Gender in Subsahara Africa

Literature on economy - formal and informal employment

Africa OverviewAngolaBenin
BotswanaBurkina FasoBurundi
CameroonCentral African RepublicChad
D.R. Congo / ZaireDjiboutiEquatorial Guinea
EritreaEthiopiaGabon
GambiaGhanaGuinea
Guinea BisseauIvory CoastKenya
LesothoLiberiaMadagascar
MalawiMaliMauritius
MozambiqueNamibiaNiger
NigeriaRwandaSenegal
Sierra LeoneSomaliaSouth Africa
South SudanSudanSwaziland / Eswatini
TanzaniaThe CongoTogo
UgandaZambiaZimbabwe

Africa Overview

Abok, Alice Mwajuma (1999): The impact of structural adjustment programmes on African women, in: Langthaler, Herbert (ed.): Sura za Afrika, Voices from Africa, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt. [1600]

Adepoju Aderanti, Christine (ed.) (1994): Gender, work and population in Sub-Saharan Africa, James Currey, London. [1602]

Anker, Richard (1994): Measuring women’s participation in the African labour force, in: Adepoju Aderanti, Christine (ed.): Gender, work and population in Sub-Saharan Africa, James Currey, London, pp. 64-75. [1601]

Appleton, Simon / Hoddinott, John / Krishnan, Pramila (1999): The gender wage gap in three African countries, in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 47, pp. 289-312. [1603]

Bay, Edna (ed.) (1982): Women and work in Africa, Westview Press, Boulder. [1604]

Braun, Lesley Nicole / Ostbo Haugen, Heidi (2021): The weight women carry, Research on the visible and invisible baggage in suitcase trade between China and Africa, in: The Professional Geographer, online, 13.9.2021 [11657]

Buss, Doris / Katz-Lavigne, Sarah / Aluoka, Otieno / Alma, Eileen (2020): “Remembering the women of Osiri”, Women and gender in artisanal and small-scale mining in Migori County, Kenya, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 177-195. [11643]

Ekouevi, Koffi / Adepoju, Aderanti (1995): Adjustment, social sectors and demographic change in Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Journal of International Development, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 47-59. [1606]

El-Bakry, Zeinab (1995): Enhancing the capacity of African woman entrepreneur, in: Rasheed, Sadig / Luke, David Fashole (eds.): Development management in Africa, Toward dynamism, empowerment, and entrepreneurship, Westview Press, Boulder, pp. 138-147. [1607]

ELDIS (2008): Toolkit on participatory budgeting in Africa, vol. I and II, Brighton. [1605]

Gaidzanwa, Rudo Barbara (1993): Women entrepreneurs, donor promotion and domestic policies, in: Helmsing, A.H.J. (ed.): Small enterprises and changing policies, Structural adjustment, financial policy and assistance programmes in Africa, IT Publications, London, pp. 277-293. [1610]

Goebel, Allison / Epprecht, Marc (1995): Women and employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, Testing the World Bank and the WID Models with a case study, in: African Studies Review, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-22. [1608]

Gordon, April (1991): Economic reform and African women, in: Transafrica Forum, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 21-41. [1609]

Grundfest Schoepf, Broke (1991): Gender relations and development, Political economy and culture, in: Seidman, Ann / Anang, Frederick (eds.): Twenty-first-century Africa, Towards a new vision of self-sustained development, Trenton, pp. 203-241. [1611]

Hanley, Aoife / Görg, Holger / Hornok, Cecilia / Ackah, Charles (2021): Africa’s Female Entrepreneurs – Towards Funding Success, PEGNetPolicy Brief 24, PEGNet, Kiel Institute for the World Economy / Kiel Centre for Globalization, Kiel. [11642]

House-Midamba, B. / Ekechi, F.K. (eds.) (1995): African women and economic power, The role of women in African economic development, Greenwood Press, Westport. [1612]

Lachenmann, Gudrun (1992): Frauen als gesellschaftliche Kraft im sozialen Wandel in Afrika, in: Peripherie, Nr. 47/48, pp. 74-93. [1613]

Lachenmann, Gudrun (1997): Informal social security in Africa from a gender perspective, in: Baud, Isa / Symth, Ines (eds.): Searching for security, Routledge, London, pp. 45-67. [1614]

Lachenmann, Gudrun (2001): Geschlechtsspezifische Einbettung der Wirtschaft, in: dieselbe / Dannecker, Petra (eds.): Geschlechtsspezifische Einbettung der Ökonomie, Empirische Untersuchungen über Entwicklungs- und Transformationsprozesse, Lit-Verlag, Münster, pp. 15-35. [1615]

Lewis, Barbara (1982): Fertility and employment, An assessment of role incompartibility among African urban women, in: Bay, Edna (ed.): Women and work in Africa, Westview Press, Boulder, pp. 249-276. [1616]

Ougundipe, Omolara (1991): African women, culture and another development, in: Presence Africaine, no. 141, pp. 123-139. [1617]

Palmer, Ingrid (1991): Gender and population in the adjustment of African economies, Planning for Change, ILO Publications, Geneva. [1618]

Randriamaro, Zo (2002): 'The NEPAD, gender and the poverty trap: The NEPAD and the challenges of financing for development in Africa from a gender perspective', paper presented at conference on Africa and the Development Challenges of the New Millennium, Accra. [1619]

Robertson, Claire (1988): Invisible workers, African women and the problem of self-employed in labour history, in: Journal of African and Asian Studies, vol. 23, no. 1-2, pp. 180-195. [1620]

Sahn, David / Haddad, Lawrence (1991): The gendered impact of structural adjustment programs in Africa, Discussion, in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 1448-1451. [1621]

Simone, Abdoumaliqalim (1995): From reproduction to reinvention, Women’s roles in African cities, in: Africa Insight, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 4-14. [1622]

Steady, Filomina Cioma (1982): African women, industrialization and another development, in: Development Dialogue, 1/2, pp. 51-64. [1623]

Sudarkasa, Niara (1985): Female employment and family organization in West Africa, in: Steady, Filomina Chioma (ed.): The black woman cross-culturally, Schenkman Books, Rochester. [1624]

Tsikata, Dzodzi / Kerr, Joanna (ed.) (2000): Demanding dignity: Women confronting economic reforms in Africa, The North-South Institute and Accra: Third World Network-Africa, Ottawa. [1625]

UN INSTRAW (2008): Gender, remittances and development, Preliminary findings from selected SADC countries, UN INSTRAW/SAIIA/UNFPA, New York. [1627]

United Nations (2001): Women entrepreneurs in Africa, Experiences from selected countries, United Nations Publications, New York. [1626]

Weil, Gordon (1992): Caught in the crisis: Women in the economies of Africa, Kahne, Hilda / Giele, Janet (eds.): Women’s work and women’s lives, continuing struggle worldwide, Westview Press, Boulder, pp. 47-68. [1628]

Whitehead, Ann / Lockwood, Matthew (1999): Gendering poverty: A review of six Wold Bank African poverty assessments, in: Development and Change, vol. 30, pp. 525-555. [1629]

Win, Everjoice (2004): Not very poor, powerless or pregnant, The African women forgotten in development, in: IDS Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 61-64. [1630]

Yacob-Haliso / Falola, Toyin (eds.) (2020): Palgrave Handbook of African women´s studies, Palgrave, London [12248]

Yacob-Haliso, Olajumoke; Falola, Toyin (eds.) (2021): The Palgrave Handbook of African Women´s Studies, Springer International Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. [12153]


Angola

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Benin

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Botswana

Dijkman, Hanneke / Dijk, van Meine (1993): Female entrepreneurs in the informal sector of Ouagadougou, in: Development Policy Review, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 273-288. [1634]

Dijkman, Hanneke / Dijk, van Meine (1997): Opportunities for women in Ouagadougou's informal sector, An analysis based on the flexible specialisation concept, in: Van Dijk, Meine P. / Rabellotti, Roberta (eds.): Enterprise clusters and networks in developing countries, Cass Publisher, London, pp. 93-108. [1635]

Ntseane, Peggy (2004): Being a female entrepreneur in Botswana: Cultures, values, strategies for success, in: Gender and Development, vol. 12, pp. 37-43. [1631]

Werbner, Pnina (2010): Appropriating social citizenship, Women’s labour, poverty, and entrepreneuship in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 693-710. [1632]


Burkina Faso

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Burundi

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Cameroon

Catherine, Forje L. (1998): Are women's microenterprises profitable? A case study of Cameroon women, in: Small Enterprise Development, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 50-56. [1636]

Fonchingong, Charles (2004): Challenges and coping strategies of women food crops entrepreneurs in Fako Division, Cameroon, in: Journal of international Women's Studies, vol. 5. [1637]

Fonchingong, Charles (2005): Negotiating livelihoods beyond Beijing: The burden of women food vendors in the informal economy of Limbe, Cameroon, in: International Social Science Journal, vol. 57, no. 184, pp. 243-253. [1638]

Lairap-Fonderson, Josephine (2002): The discipline power of microcredit, Examples from Kenya and Cameroon, in: Parpart, Jane / Rai, Shirin / Staudt, Kathleen (eds.): Rethinking empowerment, Gender and development in a global / local world, Routledge, London, pp. 102-198. [1639]


Central African Republic

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Chad

no entries to this combination of country and topic


D.R. Congo / Zaire

Bashwira, Marie-Rose / van der Haar, Gemma (2020): Necessity of choice, Women’s migration to artisanal mining regions in the Eastern DRC, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 79-99. [11648]

Bay, Edna (ed.) (1982): Women and work in Africa, Westview Press, Boulder. [12357]

Bay, Edna (ed.) (1982): Women and work in Africa, Westview Press, Boulder. [12358]

De Herdt, Tom / Marysse, Stefaan (1999): The reinvention of the market from below, The end of the women’s money changing monopoly in Kinshasa, in: Review of African Political Economy, vol. 26, pp. 239-253. [1640]

Gould, Terri (1978): Value conflict and development: The struggle of the professional Zairian women, in: Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 16. no. 1, pp. 133-139. [1641]

Schoepf, Brooke / Engundu, Walu (1991): Women and structural adjustment in Zaire in: Gladwin, Christina (ed.): Structural adjustment and African women farmers, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, pp. 151-168. [1642]

Shapiro, David / Tambashe, B. (1997): Education, employment, and fertility in Kinshasa and prospects for changes in reproductive behaviour, in: Population Research and Policy Review, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 259-287. [1644]

Shapiro, David / Tambashe, B. Oleko (1994): The impact of women's employment and education on contraceptive use and abortion in Kinshasa, Zaire, in: Studies in Family Planning, vol. 2, pp. 96-110. [1643]

Stewart, Jennifer / Kibombo, Richard / Rankin, Pauline (2020): Gendered livelihoods in the artisanal mining sector in the Great Lakes Region, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 37-56. [11649]

Yates, Barbara (1981): Colonialism, education and work, Sex differentiation in Colonial Zaire, in: Bay, Edna (ed.): Women and work, Boulder, Westview Press, pp. 127-152. [1645]


Djibouti

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Equatorial Guinea

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Eritrea

Zamperetti, Francesca / Dalla Costa, Giovanne (2008): Sharing trust, Women and microcredit in Eritrea, Africa World Press, Trenton. [1646]


Ethiopia

Bjeren, Gunilla (1985): Migration to Shashemene, Ethnicity, gender and occupation in urban Ethiopia, Publications of the Institute of African Studies, Uppsala. [1647]

Haile, Fekerte (1989): Women fuelwood carriers and the supply of household energy in Addis Ababa, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 23, pp. 442-451. [1648]

Iyenda, G. / Simon, D. (2007): Gender relations, bread winning and family life in Kinshasa, in: Murray, Martin / Myers, Garth Andrew (eds.): Cities in contemporary Africa, Palgrave, London. [1649]

Tekola, Bethlehem (2005): Poverty and the social context of sex work in Addis Abeba, Forum for Social Studies, Monograph Series, 2, Addis Abeba. [1650]

Van Kersteren, Jose (1988): Female workers in Addis Ababa, Social Science Research Review, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 17-32. [1651]


Gabon

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Gambia

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Ghana

Arku, Cynthia / Arku, Frank (2009): More money, new household cultural dynamics, Women in micro-finance in Ghana, in: Development in Practice, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 200-213. [1652]

Bay, Edna (ed.) (1982): Women and work in Africa, Westview Press, Boulder. [12356]

Bortei-Doku, Ellen / Aryeetey, Ernest (2000): The participation of women in the Ghanaian economy, in: Aryeetey, Ernest / Harrigan, Jane / Nissanke, Machiko (eds.): Economic reforms in Ghana: The miracle and the mirage, James Currey, Oxford. [1653]

Chalfin, Brenda (2000): Risky business: Economic uncertainty, market reforms and female livelihoods in Northeast Ghana, in: Development and Change, vol. 31, pp. 987-1008. [1654]

Chamlee-Wright, Emily (1997): The cultural foundations of economic development: Urban female entrepreneurs in Ghana, Routledge, London [1655]

Date-Bah, Eugenia (1982): Female and male factory worker in Accra, in: Oppong, Christine (ed.): Female and male in West Africa, George Allan and Unwin, London, pp. 131-149. [1656]

Dinan, Carmel (1977): Pragmatists or feminists? The professional single women of Accra, Ghana, in: Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines, vol. 65, pp. 155-176. [1657]

Dinan, Carmel (1983): Sugar daddies and gold-diggars, the white collar single women in Accra, in: Oppong, Christine (ed.): Female and male in West Africa, George Allen and Unwin Publishers, London, pp. 344-366. [1658]

Manuh, Takyiwaa (1994): Ghana: Women in the public and informal sectors under the economic recovery programme, in: Sparr, Pamela (ed.): Mortgaging women's lives: Feminist critiques of structural adjustment, Zed Books, London, pp. 61-77. [1659]

Manuh, Takyiwaa (1994): Ghanaian women, economic crisis and access to resources, in: Yngstrom, Ingrid (ed.): Gender and environment in Africa, Perspectives on the politics of environmental sustainability, Publications of the Centre of African Studies, Edingburgh, pp. 137-155. [1660]

Manuh, Takyiwaa (1997): Ghana: Women in the public and informal sectors under the economic recovery programme, in: Visvanathan, Nalini (ed.): The women, gender and development reader, Zed Books, London, pp. 277-284 [1661]

Overa, Ragnhild (2007): When men do women’s work, Structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, Ghana, in: Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 539-563. [1662]


Guinea

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Guinea Bisseau

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Ivory Coast

Lewis, Barbara (1977): Economic activity and marriage among Ivorian urban women, in: Schlegel, Alice (eds.): Sexual stratification, A cross-cultural view, Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 161-191. [1663]

Lewis, Barbara (1982): Fertility and employment: An assessment of role incompartibility among African urban women, in: Bay, Edna (ed.): Women and work in Africa, Westview Press, Boulder. [1664]

Nix, Ursula (1990): Frauenarbeit in Sassandra, Randbereich oder Grundlage der Wirtschaft? in: Hillen, Peter (Hg.): Im Schatten des Wachstums, Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen in der Cote d’Ivoire, Breitenbach Verlag, Saarbrücken, pp. 337-358. [1665]


Kenya

Atumtabi, Maurice / Lutta-Mukhebi, Mary (2001): Gender and mining in Kenya, The case of Mukibira Mines in Vihiga District, in: Jenda, 2. [1666]

Buss, Doris / Katz-Lavigne, Sarah / Aluoka, Otieno / Alma, Eileen (2020): “Remembering the women of Osiri”, Women and gender in artisanal and small-scale mining in Migori County, Kenya, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 177-195. [11652]

Dellantonio, Johanna (2005): “In Nairobi I have my house, upcountry I have my house” – Berufstätige Frauen zwischen Land und Stadt in Kenia, in: Stichproben, Wiener Zeitschrift für krititsche Afrikastudien, nr. 9, 5. Jg., pp. 23-36. [1667]

Krenceyova, Michaela (2008): "I don´t know what´s wrong with us girls"- Von Gender und Empowerment. Deutungen und Implikationen eines entwicklungspolitischen Schlagwortes in Nairobi, in: Stichproben, Nr. 15, 8. Jg., pp. 1-29. [11964]

McCormick, Dorothy (1996): Women in business, Class and Nairobi’s small and medium-sized producers, in: Sheldon, Kathleen (ed.): Courtyards, markets, city streets, Urban women in Africa, Westview Press, Boulder, pp. 193-211. [1668]

Nelson, Nici (1978): Women must help each other, The operation of personal networks among buzaa beer brewers in Mathare Valley, Kenya, in: Caplan, Pat / Bujra, J. (eds.): Women united, women divided, London, pp. 77-98. [1669]

Nelson, Nici (1978): Female centred families, Changing patterns of marriage and family among buzaa brewers of Mathare valley, in: African Urban Studies, n.s. 3, pp. 85-103. [1670]

Nelson, Nici (1979): How women and men get by: The sexual division of labour in the informal sector of a Nairobi squatter settlement, in: Gerry, C. / Bromley, R. (eds.): The casual poor in the third world cities, John Wiley and Sons Publishers, New York, pp. 283-302. [1671]

Nelson, Nici (1987): Selling her kiosk, Kikuyu women’s notion on sexuality and sex for sale in Mathere Valley, Kenya, in: Caplan, Pat (ed.): The cultural construction of sexuality, London, Routledge Publications, pp. 217-293. [1672]

Njeru, E.H.N. / Njoka, J.M. (2001): Women entrepreneurs in Nairobi: The socio-cultural factors influencing their investment patterns, in: Alila, Patrick O. / Pedersen, Poul O. (eds.): Negotiating social space: East African Micro-Enterprises, Africa World Press, Trenton. [1673]

Schloss, Johanna (1997): Dressed to „shine“: Work, leisure, and style in Malindi, Kenya, in: Hendickson, Hildi (ed.): Clothing and difference, Embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa, Duke University Press, Durham, pp. 157-188. [1674]

Stichter, Sharon (1975): Women and the labour force in Kenya, 1895-1964, in: Rural Africana, 21, pp. 45-65. [1675]

Stichter, Sharon (1985): The middle class family in Kenya, changes in gender relations, in: African Urban Studies, vol. 21, pp. 39-52. (and published in: Stichter, Sharon / Parpart, Jane (eds.): Patriarchy and class, African women in the home and the work force, Boulder, pp. 177-203.) [1676]

Stichter, Sharon (1986): Women, employment and the family in Nairobi: The impact of capitalist development in Kenya, Working Papers in African Studies, no. 121, Boston University. Boston. [1677]

Stichter, Sharon (1987): Women and the family, The impact of capitalist development in Kenya, in: Schatzberg, Michael (ed.): The political economy of Kenya, New York, Praeger. [1678]

Suda, Colette (1996): The political economy of women’s work in Kenya, in: Chronic constraints and broken barriers, in: Ghorayshi, Parvin / Belanger, Claire (eds.): Women, work and gender relations in developing countries, A global perspective, Greenwood Publishers, Westport, pp. 75-70. [1679]

Suda, Colette (2002): Gender disparities in the Kenyan labour market, Implications for poverty reduction, in: Nordic Journal of African Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 301-321. [1680]

Wachtel, E. (1976): Minding her own business, Women shop keepers in Nakuru, in: African Urban Notes, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 27-42. [1681]

Walz, Gabriele (1991): Nomadenfrauen als Unternehmerinnen, die Samburu Nord-Kenias als Beispiel, in: Scholz, Fred (Hg.): Nomaden, Berlin, pp. 355-369. [1682]

Wamuthenya, Wambui Rose (2010): Economic crisis and women’s employment rate in a Sub-Saharan African country, Explaining the rise in women’s employment rate in the urban area of Kenya, Working Paper no. 500, ISS, Den Haag. [1683]

Wamuthenya, Wambui Rose (2010): To what extend can disparities in compositional and structural factors account for the gender gap in unemployment in the urban areas of Kenya, Working Paper no. 502, ISS, Den Haag. [1684]

White, Luise (1987): Vice and vagrants, Prostitution, housing and casual labour in Nairobi in the mid 1930s, in: Snyder, Francis / Hay, Douglas (eds.): Struggle for the city, Migrant labour, capital and the state in urban Africa, Sage Publications, London, pp. 165-191. [1685]

White, Luise (1988): Domestic labour in a colonial city: Prostition in Nairobi, in: Stichter, Sharon / Parpart, Jane (eds.): Patriarchy and class, African women in the home and the work force, Boulder, pp.139-160. [1686]

Whiting, Beatrice (1974): The Kenyan career women: Traditional and modern, in: Kerndsin, R.B. (eds.): The anatomy of advancement, New York, William Morrow and Co. [1687]

Yieke, Felicia A. (2007): Gender and top management in discourse: The glass ceiling as a reality for women in corporate Kenya, in: Stichproben, Jg. 7, Nr. 13, pp. 31-47. [1688]

Zezela, Tiyambe (1988): Labour, unionisation and women’s participation in Kenya, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Nairobi. [1689]


Lesotho

Baylies, Caroyln / Wright, Caroline (1993): Female labour in the textile and clothing industry in Lesotho, in: African Affairs, vol. 92, pp. 577-591. [1690]

Baylies, Caroyln / Wright, Caroline (1993): Female labour in the textile and clothing industry in Lesotho, in: African Affairs, vol. 92, pp. 577-591. [1691]

Boehm, Christian (2006): Industrial labour, marital strategy and changing livelihood trajectories among young women in Lesotho, in: Christiansen, Catrine / Utas, Mat / Vigh, Henrik (eds.) Navigating youth, generating adulthood, Social becoming in an African conext, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, pp. 153-182. [12345]

Gay, Judith (1980): Wage employment of rural Basutho women, A case study, in: South African Labour Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 40-53. [1692]

Gibbs, Tim (2005): ‘Union boys and caps leading factory girls astray?’ The politics of labour reform in Lesotho’s ‘feminised’ garment industry, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 95-112. [1693]

Goebel, Allison / Epprecht, Marc (1995): Women and employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Testing the World Bank and WID models with a Lesotho case study, in: African Studies Review, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-22. [1694]

Malahleha, G.M. (1985): Liquor brewing: A cottage industry in Lesotho shebeens, in: Journal of Eastern African Research and Development, vol. 15, pp. 45-55. [1695]

Mapetla, Matseliso (1996): Beer brewing and housing strategies in Lesotho, in: Schlyter, Ann (ed.): A place to live, Gender research on housing in Africa, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, pp. 144-159. [1696]

Mapetla, Matseliso (1998): Beer brewing as a survival strategy in urban Lesotho, in: Larsson, Anita (ed.): Changing gender relations in Southern Africa, Issues of urban life, Publications of the Institute of Southern African Studies, Roma, pp. 155-183. [1697]

Marlowe, Julia (1996): Opportunities for the employment of women in Lesotho. An analysis of the labour construction unit, in: Scandianvian Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies, vol. 15, pp. 90-101. [1698]

Marlowe, Julia / Setsbik, Anthony (1996): Opportunities for the employment of women in Lesotho: An analysis of the labour construction unit, in: Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives and Areas Studies, pp. 90-101 [1699]


Liberia

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Madagascar

Lawson, Lynda (2018): Rice, sapphires and cattle, Work lives of women artisanal and small-scale miners in Madagascar, in: Dutt-Lahiri, Kuntala (ed.): Between the plough and the pick, Anu Press, Canberra, pp. 171-192. [11780]


Malawi

Edriss, Abdi-Khalil / Kamvani, Esnart (2003): Socio-economic constraints women face when running micro-enterprises: A comparative case study in Southern Malawi, in: Eastern Africa Journal of Rural Development, vol. 19, no.1, pp. 41-51. [1700]

Osterhaus, Juliane (1992): Promotion of women in rural areas, Critical review of five years project experiences in business promotion and recommendations for a future concept, GTZ-Studie, Eschborn. [1701]

Spittler, Anna E. (1987): Training promotes self-confidence, Practical experience in technical and commercial training of rural women in Malawi, in: GATE, Heft 3, pp. 14-20. [1702]

Stahl, Cosimo (2021): Gendered corruption, Initial insights into sextortion and double bribery affecting female businesswomen in Malawi, Basel Institute on Governance, Basel. [11655]


Mali

Dom, Catherine (1994): Women and banking: A case study from southern Mali, in: The Courier, 143, pp. 70-74. [1703]

Doumbia, Saliha / Meurs, Dominique (2003): Gender equality at work in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of Mali's modern sector, in: International Labour Review, vol. 142, no. 3, pp. 295-316. [1704]


Mauritius

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Mozambique

Rutherford, Blair (2022): Migration, authority and the gendered organization of labour in artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone (and Mozambique), in: Africa, vol. 92, no. 3. [12007]

Rutherford, Blair / Chemane-Chilemba, Laila (2020): The governance of artisanal and small-scale mining in Manica District, Mozambique, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 139-156. [11647]

Sheldon, Kathleen (1991): Sewing clothes and sorting cashew nuts: Factories, families and women in Beira, Mozambique, in: Women’s Studies International Forum, vol. 14, no. 1/2, pp. 27-36. [1705]

Sheldon, Kathleen (1991): A report on a ‘delicate problem’ concerning female garment workers in Beira, Mozambique, in: Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 575-586. [1706]

Sheldon, Kathleen (1992): Chreches, titias, and mothers: Working women and child care in Mozambique, in: Hansen, Karen Tranberg (ed.): African encounters with domesticity, New Brunswick, pp. 290-310. [1707]


Namibia

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Niger

no entries to this combination of country and topic


Nigeria

Abdullah, Hussaina (1997): Multiple identities and multiple organizing strategies of female wage workers in Kano’s manufacturing sector, in: Rosander, Eva Evres (ed.): Tranforming female identities, Women’s organisational forms in West Africa, Publications of the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, pp. 54-68. [1708]

Andrae, Gunilla (1997): A women worker in a Lagos factory, Her power base in family, community, labour market, and union, in: Rosander, Eva Evres (ed.): Tranforming female identities, Women`s organisational forms in West Africa, Publications of the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, pp. 69-84. [1709]

Anugwom, Edlyne (2011): ‘Wetin we for do?’ Women entrepreneurs and the Niger Delta Conflict, in: Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, vol. 24, no.2, pp. 49-56. [1710]

Bay, Edna (ed.) (1983): Women and work in Africa, Westview Press, Boulder. [12355]

Byfield, Judith (2002): The bluest hands, A social and economic history of women dryers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940, James Currey, London. [1711]

Cooper, Barbara (1993): Cloth, commodity production and social capital: Women in Maradi, Niger, 1890-1989, in: African Economic History, vol. 21, pp. 51-71. [1712]

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Rwanda

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Senegal

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Sierra Leone

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Somalia

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South Sudan

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Sudan

Rössler, A. (1987): Rolle und Selbstverständnis berufstätiger Frauen im Nordsudan, Ihre Auswirkungen auf die traditionelle Familienstruktur, in: Afrika Spektrum, Nr. 22, 1, pp. 79-91. [1860]

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Swaziland / Eswatini

Biswalo, Peles / Baartjes, Zodwa (2001): Women’s need for credit in order to participate in income generation activities, Swaziland case study, in: Adult Education and Development, vol. 27, pp. 89-105. [1759]

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Tanzania

Lange, Siri / Wyndham, Victoria (2021): Gender, regulation, and corporate social responsibility in the extractive sector, The case of Equinor s social investments in Tanzania, in: Women s Studies International Forum, vol. 84, pp. 1-8. [11629]

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The Congo

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Togo

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Uganda

Ellis, Amanda / Manuel, Claire (2005): Gender and economic growth in Uganda, Unleasing the power of women, World Bank Publications, Washington D.C. [1864]

Malunga, Jane Seruwagi (1998): Women employeers in the informal sector, Kampala, Uganda, Gender Issues Research Report Series, no. 8, OSSREA, Addis Abeba. [1865]

Namara, Agrippinah (2001): The invisible workers: Paid domestic work in Kampala City, Uganda, Working Paper No. 74, Centre for Basic Research, Kampala. [1866]

Obbo, Christine (1975): Women’s careers in low income areas as indicators of country and town dynamics, in: Parkin, David (ed.): Town and country in Central and Eastern Africa, London, pp. 288-293. [1867]

Sebina-Zziwa, Abby / Kibombo, Richard (2020): Licensing of artisanal mining on private land in Uganda, Social and economic implications for female spouses and women entrepreneurs, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 101-117. [11645]

Snyder, Margaret (2000): Women in African economics, From burning sun to boardroom, Fountain Publishers, Kampala. [1868]


Zambia

Bardouille,Raj (1981): The sexual division of labour in the urban informal sector, the case of some townships in Lusaka, in: African Social Research, 32, pp. 29-53. [1869]

Chauncey, George (1981): The locus of reproduction: Women’s labour in the Zambian Copperbelt, 1927-1953, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 135-164. [1870]

Jules-Rosette, Benetta (1983): Women’s work in the informal sector, A Zambian case study, Women in Development Papers, no. 3, Michigan State University, East Lansing. [1871]

Jules-Rosette, Benetta (1985): Women and technological change in the informal urban economy: A Zambian case study, in: Safir, Marilyn / Medinick, Martha et al. (eds.): Women’s worlds, Praeger Publications, New York, pp. 58-69. [1872]

Lewis, Cindy (2004): Microfinance from the point of view of women with disabilities in Zambia and Zimbabwe, in: Sweetman, Caroline (ed.): Gender, development and diversity, Oxfam Publications, Oxford, pp. 28-39. [1873]

Parpart, Jane (1985): Working class wives and collective labour action on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1926-1964, Working Paper, no. 98, African Studies Centre, Boston University, Boston. [1874]

Schuster, Ilsa (1983): Female white collar workers, A case study of successful developement in Lusaka, Zambia, WID working papers, no. 29, Michigan State University, East Lansing. [1875]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1975): Married women and work: Expectations from an urban case study, in: African Social Research, 20, pp. 777-799. [1876]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1982): Planning productive work for married women in a low-income settlement in Lusaka: The case of a small-scale handicrafts industry, in: African Social Research, vol. 33, pp. 211-223. [1877]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1986): Domestic service in Zambia, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 57-81. [1878]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1986): Household work as a man’s job - Sex and gender in domestic service in Zambia, in: Anthropology Today, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 18-23. [1879]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1987): ‘The work history’, Disaggregating the changing terms of poor women’s entry into Lusaka labour work force, WID working papers, no. 134, Michigan State University, East Lansing. [1880]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1987): Urban women and work, A Zambian case, in: TransAfrica Forum, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 9-24. [1881]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1989): Distant companies - Servants and employers in Zambia, 1900-1985, Cornell University Press, Ithaca. [1882]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1989): The black market and women traders in Lusaka, Zambia, in: Parpart, Jane / Staudt, Kathleen (eds.): Women and the state in Africa, Westview Press, Boulder, pp. 143-160. [1883]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1990): Body politics: Sexuality, gender and domestic service in Zambia, in: Journal of Women’s History, 2, 1, pp. 120-142. (and published in: Stolen, Kristi Ann / Vaa, Mariken (eds.): Gender and change in developing countries, Oslo 1991, pp.3-25. and published in: Jonson-Odim, Cheryl / Strobel, Margaret (eds.): Expanding the boundaries of women’s history, Essays on women in the Third World, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 3-25.) [1884]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (1999): Second hand clothing encounters in Zambia, Global discourses, Western commodities and local histories, in: Fardon, Richard / van Binsbergen, Wim /van Dijk, Rijk (eds.): Modernity on a shoestring, Dimensions of globalizaiton, consumption and development in Africa and beyond, Eidos Publications, Leiden – London, pp. 215-222. [1885]

Tranberg Hansen, Karen (2004): Who rules the streets? The politics of vending space in Lusaka, in: Tranberg Hansen, Karen / Vaa, Mariken (eds.): Reconsidering informality, Perspectives from urban Africa, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, pp. 62-80. [1886]


Zimbabwe

Chatiza, Kudzai / Muchadenyka, Davison / Makaza, Dorcas / Nyaunga, Fannie / Murungu, Ronnie James / (2015): When Extractives Come Home: An Action Research on the Impact of the Extractives Sector on Women in Selected Mining Communities in Zimbabwe.” in: OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 8 (12), pp. 45-72. [12275]

Gibbon, Peter (1995): Strutural adjustment and the working poor in Zimbabwe, Studies, on labour, women informal sector sector workers and health, Publications of the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. [1887]

Imas, J. Miguel / Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia (2023): A postcolonial and pan-african feminist feading of Zimbabwean women entrepreneurs, in: Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 30, no 2, pp. 391–411. [12158]

Jassai, E.M. / Jirira K.O. (1989): Industrial development in Zimbabwe, The case of women in manufacturing activities, Consultancy reports no. 7, Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies, Harare. [1888]

Kanji, Nazneen / Jazdowska, Niki (1994): Structural adjustment and women in Zimbabwe. In: Review of African Political Economy, no. 56, pp. 11-26. [1889]

Kanji, Nazneen / Jazdowska, Niki (1995): Gender, structural adjustment and employment in urban Zimbabwe, in: Third World Planning Review, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 133- 152. [1890]

Lewis, Cindy (2004): Microfinance from the point of view of women with disabilities in Zambia and Zimbabwe, in: Sweetman, Caroline (ed.): Gender, development and diversity, Oxfam Publications, Oxford, pp. 28-39. [1891]

Muchadenyika, Davison (2020): Women Struggles and Large-Scale Diamond Mining in Marange, Zimbabwe, in: The Extractive Industries and Society, vol. 2 (4), pp. 714–721. [12274]

Muller, Helen (1994): The legacy and opportunities for women managers in Zimbabwe, in: Adler, Nancy / Izraeli, Dafna (eds.): Competitive frontiers, Women managers in a global economy, Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge, pp. 359-373. [11874]

Osrim, Mary Johnson (1994): Women, work, and public policy: Structural adjustment and the informal sector in Zimbabwe, in: Kalipeni, Ezekiel (ed.): Population growth and environmental degradation in Southern Africa, Boulder, pp. 61-84. [1892]

Osrim, Mary Johnson (1996): The dynamics of modern development, Structural adjustment and women microentrepreneurs in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, in: Turpin, Jennifer (ed.): The gendered new world order, Routledge Publishers, London, pp. 127-146. [1893]

Osrim, Mary Johnson (1998): Negotiating identities during adjustment programs, Women micro-entrepreneurs in urban Zimbabwe, in: Spring, Anita / McDade, Barbara (eds.): African entrepreneurship, Theory and reality, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, pp. 277-297. [1894]

Osrim, Mary Johnson (2008): Creatively coping with crisis and globalization, Zimbabwean businesswomen in crocheting and kniting, in. Harley, A. (ed.): Women’s labour in the global economy, Speaking with multiple voices, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, pp. 134-157. [1895]

WLSA - Women and Law in Southern Africa (2021): Strengthening women’s voices in natural resource governance in Zimbabwe, Harare. [11625]

WLSA - Women and Law in Southern Africa (2021): Gender equality in the artisanal and small-scale mining ASM in the SADC region, Harare. [11626]

WLSA – Women and Law in Southern Africa (2019): Putting women at the Centre of Extractivism, A compendium on gender and extractives, Harare. [11627]

Women and Law in Southern Africa (2021): Women in extractive industry in Lesotho, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe, Harare. [11628]

World Bank (1991): The informal sector in Zimbabwe, The role of women, The World Bank, Washington D.C. [11871]

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