Dzao women's land rights in the context of the state's land allocation programs (1965-present) :|bcase study in Cho Don District - Bac Kan Province north of Vietnam | |
| Author | Hoang Hong Hanh |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.GD-02-01 |
| Subject(s) | Women's rights--Vietnam--Bac Kam Land use--Vietnam--Bac Kam |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science.School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. GD-02-01 |
| Abstract | In the last decades there are many changes in land policies affecting women's land rights. Major problems affected women's land rights due to no explicit provision to ensure gender equity in land allocation. The Dzao people followed their traditional norms, men are obvious representative of the family, women's rights to land follow the traditional practices. By interviewing 15 women in 35 households in the village, this work examines the impact of land allocation on indigenous women through women's access to land and women's rights to land before, during and after collectivization periods. Considering the body of information in th~ case studies as a whole, the study examines women's land rights through land use patterns and land tenure systems of the Dzao and the gender division of labor. It was found that although women work very hard and contribute more labor force to land cultivation than their rights to land are not recognized. The result shows that after the land allocation to individual households, women have more rights to access to land but also have too heavy burden in productive and reproductive work. They are also responsible for forest protection tasks due to husbands being away from home for wage labor. |
| Year | 2002 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. GD-02-01 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Gender and Development Studies (GD) |
| Chairperson(s) | Resurreccion, Bernadette P. |
| Examination Committee(s) | Kusakabe, Kyoko ;Sajor, Edsel |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2002 |