Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Money issues
A couple weeks ago, we watched a video on economic development and the role that gender plays in how different organizations go about trying to increase development in an area. It's been pretty well documented that women spend money on developmental target areas, like education, small business, and health care. Whereas men don't, to the same degree that women do. I guess I still wonder why. Some argue that it's because women are more maternal, that they care more about the family. Still goes back to is that natural or is that taught. I haven't decided, although I now feel I can decently argue both sides of this issue. There's also the question of what do women see as development's purpose- profit or sustenance? I think by and large, women see it as a means to keep the family healthy and secure, not necessarily as just a means to make money. Money is necessary for those two goals, but it's not the end all be all that it can sometimes seem.
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it's a great question -- it would be interesting to do some research to see if we could answer it -- what do the men in these cultures say about their choices? how do they understand them?
Maybe it is part of the male bias which suggests that if men take care of themselves the world is a successful place and the essential labor of women remains invisible -- what this program does is make it visible -- thus the capacity to deny women's contributions is lost.
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