ABSTRACT This study examines women’s empowerment and its determinants for smallholder rice farming households in Kilombero, Tanzania. The Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is adopted and for the study site, the overall WEAI was 0.54 with a 5 Domains Empowerment sub-index value of 0.50 and the Gender Parity sub-index of 0.86. Key domains contributing to women’s disempowerment are workload, resource ownership and restricted inputs to productive decision making. To assess determinants of women’s empowerment the ordinal logit analysis is used and for the female-headed households, age of the household head, education level, group membership, condition of dwelling and distance from the nearest major town have a positive association with women’s empowerment, while monthly income has a negative association with it. For the male-headed households, the association is significant for age of the man.

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妇女赋权：坦桑尼亚基隆贝罗区小农稻农的案例

摘要 本研究调查了坦桑尼亚基隆贝罗的妇女赋权及其对水稻小农户的决定因素。采用了农业妇女赋权指数 (WEAI)，研究地点的整体 WEAI 为 0.54，5 个领域赋权分指数值为 0.50，性别平等分指数值为 0.86。导致妇女失去权力的关键领域是工作量、资源所有权和对生产性决策的有限投入。为了评估妇女赋权的决定因素，使用了序数逻辑分析，对于女户主家庭，户主的年龄、教育水平、群体成员、居住条件和与最近的主要城镇的距离与妇女赋权具有正相关关系，而月收入与其呈负相关。