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Gendered aspirations and occupations among rural youth, in agriculture and beyond: A cross-regional perspective

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Title Gendered aspirations and occupations among rural youth, in
agriculture and beyond: A cross-regional perspective
 
Creator Elias, M
Mudege, N
Lopez, D E
Najjar, D
Kandiwa, V
Luis, J
Yila, J
Tegbaru, A
Ibrahim, G
Badstue, L
Njuguna, E M
Bentaibi, A
 
Subject Agriculture
Gender Research
 
Description Based on 25 case studies from the global comparative study ‘GENNOVATE: Enabling gender
equality in agricultural and environmental innovation’, this paper explores rural young women’s
and men’s occupational aspirations and trajectories in India, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Mexico,
Nigeria, and the Philippines. We draw upon qualitative data from 50 sex-segregated focus groups
with the youth to show that across the study’s regional contexts, young rural women and men
predominantly aspire for formal blue and white-collar jobs. Yet, they experience an aspirationachievement
gap, as the promise of their education for securing the formal employment they
seek is unfulfilled, and they continue to farm in their family’s production. Whereas some young
men aspired to engage in knowledge-intensive or ‘modern’ agriculture, young women did not
express any such interest. Framing our analysis within a relational approach, we contend that
various gender norms that discriminate against women in agriculture dissuade young women
from aspiring for agriculture-related occupation. We discuss the gendered opportunity spaces of
the study sites, the meanings these hold for allowing young women and men to achieve their
aspirations and catalyze agricultural innovation, and implications for agricultural policies and
research for development. Our findings show that youth and gender issues are inextricably
intertwined and cannot be understood in isolation one from the other.
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10984/1/Gendered%20aspirations%20and%20occupations.pdf
Elias, M and Mudege, N and Lopez, D E and Najjar, D and Kandiwa, V and Luis, J and Yila, J and Tegbaru, A and Ibrahim, G and Badstue, L and Njuguna, E M and Bentaibi, A (2018) Gendered aspirations and occupations among rural youth, in agriculture and beyond: A cross-regional perspective. Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, 3 (1). pp. 82-107. ISSN 2413-922X