The last transition? Women and development in Mozambique

Bibliographic Data

ID11813422
AuthorsStephanie Urdang (corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume10
Issue27-28
Publication date1983-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of African Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03056248308703544
OpenAlexW1971531929
LanguageEN
Citations received4

There is still much difficult terrain to traverse before women in Mozambique achieve full liberation. But the process has been set in motion, supported by FRELIMO and the Government who have acknowledged the struggle of women to be integral to the total revolutionary process which the country must follow. Urdang's concern is to gauge how far the official concern is manifested in practice, how far FRELIMO's underwriting of the need for women to achieve full equality and full participation in Mozambican society has affected the day‐to‐day lives of ordinary women. She finds much which is lacking, particularly as regards change within the family. As elsewhere, the widening of women's participation in the economy and in political affairs is achieved at the price, at the individual level, of women being obliged to double their work and responsibilities, rather than achieving a more equitable share of the total burden with men. Yet consciousness of the need for increasing change, particularly among women themselves, portends the possibility of progress in this area as well as in others

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