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Title The economic rights of Nandi women
Full text http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/1201; http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/11295/7634
Date 1977
Author(s) Obole, Regina Smith
Abstract The traditional economic rights of Nandi women are outlined, together with changes these are undergoing in the modern setting. Briefly, women traditionally have absolute rights of ownership of chickens, vegetables and the milk from the evening (and in the modern setting, possibly finger millet); qualified rights of ownership over a share of the maize (formerly finger millet) crop, cattle acquired under certain circumstances, and sheep and goats acquired through their own efforts; and veto power over the alienation of family land and cattle. Several factors are discussed which are presently contributing to the erosion of the economic rights of wives, while the economic rights and options of unmarried women are increasing.
Subject(s) Gender; Rights
Language en
Publisher Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
Relation Working Papers.;328
Type of publication Series paper (non-IDS)
Format application/pdf
Rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/; Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
Identifier Oboler, Regina Smith (1977) The economic rights of Nandi women. Working paper no. 328, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi; 322551
Repository Nairobi - University of Nairobi
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