著者

Takasaki Yoshito

出版者

Taylor & Francis

雑誌

The Journal of development studies (ISSN:00220388)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.1, pp.115-132, 2012-01

被引用文献数

7

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Using original post-disaster household survey data gathered in rural Fiji, this article explores the disaster–gender nexus. Female-headed households are disadvantaged, not because of bias against them in disaster damage or relief, but because of a newly emerging gendered division of labour for dwelling rehabilitation that tightens their constraints on intra-household labour allocation. Female-headed households with damaged dwellings resort to female labour activities connected with informal risk sharing – augmenting production of handicrafts for kava rituals in exchange for male-labour help. Female-headed households without male-adult members resort to such activities more than those with them, because of their distinctly different decision-making processes.