Title page for ETD etd-03042009-040557
|Type of Document
||Martell, Christine Renée
||Women's work and household income :evidence from Bangkok's urban fringe
||Master of Urban and Regional Planning
||Urban and Regional Planning
|Hardman, Anna M.
|Bohland, James R.
- economic marginalization
|Date of Defense
This research asks whether the patterns of women's economic contribution and
marginalization that previously have been identified apply to the emerging metropolitan
fringe areas. I argue that women in metropolitan fringe communities are more
marginalized than men in tenns of type of employment, location of employment, hours of
employment, and remuneration. Women contribute different amounts and proportions of
time and income to the family than men and their contributions, productive and
reproductive, significantly add to the household resources and are necessary for household
survival. The research identifies women's economic contributions to the household and
how they vary by household type and composition. This study uses data collected by
Browder et al (1992) from a sample offamilies in Bangkok's metropolitan fringe to
explore employment patterns and gender roles. Results show that women and men have
different employment patterns~ with women much more likely to be involved with
infonnal, self-employed work. Women make significant contributions to household
incomes, but they do so while being economically marginalized. Even in a lower-middle
to middle class area, residents--particularly women--rely on infonnal sector employment.
An important conclusion, which was overlooked in a previous analysis, is that self employment
is crucial to women's work patterns. Finally, all women significantly
contribute to household income; unlike non-head males, non-head and non-spouse females
contribute as much as female heads and spouses.
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