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Wage Earning Women and the Double Day: the Nigerian Case

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Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labour

Part of the book series: Macmillan International Political Economy Series ((IPES))

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The relevance of western feminist scholarship to the study of Third World women has been a matter of considerable debate for some time. At the 1976 Wellesley conference on women and development, Third World women argued forcefully against the assumption that all women are oppressed by men. They rejected western feminists’ preoccupation with patriarchy and insisted that global inequities, not men, were the main enemy facing Third World women. Indeed, Third World men were seen as potential allies in the fight against imperialism and class oppression — both considered more problematic than gender inequality. This theme surfaced at the UN Decade for Women meetings in 1975 and 1980 and, though perhaps less stridently, in 1985.

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  1. Jane L. Parpart
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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

    Sharon Stichter (Professor and Chair) (Professor and Chair)

  2. Department of History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Jane L. Parpart (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Parpart, J.L. (1990). Wage Earning Women and the Double Day: the Nigerian Case. In: Stichter, S., Parpart, J.L. (eds) Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labour. Macmillan International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20514-1_6

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