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Women and Structural Transformation |
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 This article summarizes the major themes of the various types of
literature relevant to understanding women’s role in primary production
and economic processes in developing countries. It briefly reviews the
overall trends in production and employment in developing countries
over the last 2 decades with a view to examining their significance for
women’s participation. The article explores women’s distinguishing role
as economic actors in traditional societies under quite different
social and production-organization system. The article explores
women’s presumable distinct influence on production by examining the
degree of substitution between their own labor in agricultural
production and other activities, between labor and capital, and between
male and female labor under different production, organizational, and
social conditions in static and dynamic contexts.
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