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Women and the Changing Urban Household Economy in Tanzania

Bibliographic Data

ID4250286
AuthorsA M Tripp (0000-0002-8490-3711, corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume27
Issue4
Pages601-623
Publication date1989-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022278x00020462
OpenAlexW2097583822
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited11

Women in Tanzania's largest city, Dar es Salaam, used to be described as 'relatively inactive' as regards paid work or self-employment.1 One study undertaken in 1971 found that only one-fifth of urban women were either working for wages (13 per cent) or earning their own sources of income (7 per cent).2 The situation could not have been more different in the late 1980s, with as many as 66 per cent in Dar es Salaam being self-employed. Although about the same proportion of women were in some kind of paid employment as during the previous decade, it appeared that since then many of them had been leaving their place of work to farm and to engage in small income-generating projects, known as miradi midogo midogo or shughuli ndogo ndogo in Kiswahili3

Dar es salaam · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Household income · Socioeconomics · Tanzania · Work (physics · African history and culture studies · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Urban and Rural Development Challenges

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Unique citing works18
Citations per year0,51
Citation span1991 - 2025 (35)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 18
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