| Author | Aye Aye Mar Kyaw |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.GD-01-15 |
| Subject(s) | Women lead of households--Myanmar
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of
Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. GD-01-15 |
| Abstract | The major focus of this research is investigating of the survival and coping strategies of
women heads of households in Nyaungbinywa village, Magway Township, Dry Zone area
of Myanmar. The Dry Zone area is originally resource-scarce region, so that the women
from that region are more venerable than women of other places in Myanmar. The
livelihood of the villagers is commonly crop farming. Irregularity of the climate is a big
obstacle for farm production as well as the survival of the poor, especially women from the
female headed households.
It has been found that women of female-headed households are more vulnerable than
women from male-headed households and household-head men. They are disadvantaged in
education, land property, access to credit and major income sources. The women heads of
households from Nyaungbinywa village employ 12 different kinds of survival strategies (on
a long-term basis) namely, (1) adjusting staple food, (2) borrowing money from informal
sources, (3) diversified source of income, (4) migration, (5) selling pre-labour wages, (6)
selling cooking ingredients, (7) selling own properties, (8) using of available natural
resources, (9) working over-time, (10) obtaining aid from relatives, (11) wage labour in
crop fields, and (12) working in their own field. In critical times, they employ 6 kinds of
coping strategies (on a short-term basis), namely (1) migration, (2) borrowing money from
informal sources, (3) adjusting staple food, (4) selling livestock, (5) selling own properties,
and ( 6) obtaining aid from relatives. The comparison of survival and coping strategies of
women household-heads are discussed.
The village history and the village livelihood patterns are also illustrated in concise manner.
Five case studies and analysis of survival and coping strategies in these cases are explained
and discussed. |
| Year | 2001 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. GD-01-15 |
| 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 ;Wickramanayake, B.W.E. |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Asian Institute of Technology Partial Scholarship
The World Bank Partial Scholarship ; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2001 |