This article historicises gender relations among Wampar speakers in New Guinea (PNG). It analyses three interconnected female biographies to show how historical background interacts with current large‐scale capitalist projects to exacerbate social inequalities. One biography exemplifies linkages between Christianisation, education and political representation; the second focuses on inheritance, access to land, and dogmas about patriliny; the third describes a woman's unfavourable position within a sibling set and her access to benefits from land leases. Support by their social network, sibling relations, birth order and, today, marital alliances, are key factors in women's success in the running of businesses, negotiating land disputes, and obtaining representation in political fora set up to deal with social problems. I demonstrate how older differentiations are reproduced as novel inequalities in political representation and in access to land and wealth. These result in new forms of exclusion that differentiate men and women, but which also differentiate life‐chances among women.

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后殖民背景下巴布亚新几内亚万锦谷大规模资本主义项目中的性别与不平等

本文对新几内亚（PNG）的Wampar演讲者之间的性别关系进行了历史性的介绍。它分析了三个相互关联的女性传记，以显示历史背景如何与当前的大规模资本主义项目相互作用，从而加剧社会不平等。一部传记记载了基督教化，教育与政治代表之间的联系。第二个重点是继承，获得土地和关于父权制的教条；第三部分描述了妇女在同胞中的不利地位以及她从土地租赁中获得利益的途径。她们的社交网络，同胞关系，生育顺序以及今天的婚姻同盟的支持，是妇女成功开展业务，谈判土地争端以及在旨在解决社会问题的政治论坛中获得代表权的关键因素。我展示了较旧的差异是如何在政治代表以及获得土地和财富的过程中被再现为新的不平等现象的。这些导致了新的排斥形式，使男人和女人有所不同，但也使女人的生活机会有所不同。