Assessment of current status of women farmers in Japan using empowerment indicators

dc.contributor.authorTijani, S. A.
dc.contributor.authorYano, I.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-28T10:36:00Z
dc.date.available2024-05-28T10:36:00Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThis research assessed the current status of Japanese women farmers using universal measurement of women empowerment. Two prefectures, Hiroshima and Shimane were selected. Stratified sampling technique was used to select respondents from each village while structured questionnaire was employed to collect data on economic, social, familial, legal, mobility and political status of the respondents. The result shows that status of women farmers was improved in the recent time compared to years back. This was revealed in the favourable responses to some statement questions such as; freedom and participation in voting, relationship with husband, participation in outside work and freedom of movement. However, their status as unpaid workers on family farms, lack of freedom to borrow and lend, inability to express their mind over the children to mother-in- law were the prevailing items of their disempowerment. Classifying respondents on the overall empowerment shows that majority of them were highly empowered. Inferential analysis using t-test to compare women farmers past and present status shows a significant difference, t = 4.827, p = 0.000. Relationship between personal characteristics of women farmers and their present empowerment status using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) coefficient r shows negative correlation between age and all empowerment indicators. Also marital status has negative correlation with familial and legal empowerment while mother-in-law and familial empowerment were positively correlated. It therefore suggests that status of women farmer in Japan has improved, compare to their situation years back.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1812-5654
dc.identifier.otherui_art_tijani_assessment_2007
dc.identifier.otherJournal of Applied Sciences 7(20), pp. 3006-3014
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9247
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAsian Network for Scientific Informationen_US
dc.subjectEmpowermenten_US
dc.subjectImproved statusen_US
dc.subjectIndicatorsen_US
dc.subjectItemsen_US
dc.subjectWomen farmersen_US
dc.subjectJapanen_US
dc.titleAssessment of current status of women farmers in Japan using empowerment indicatorsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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