Author: Aurangzaib Alizai
AIT Library Call Number: AIT RSPR no.GD-10-01
Year: 2010
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Research Studies Project Report (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2010
Examination Committee: Kyoko Kusakabe (Chairperson); Mokbul Morshed Ahmad, Philippe Doneys (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: This study explores how changes in survival strategies account for changes in gender roles during conflict displacement. Forced displacement has a differential impact on both women and men, which can differ at various stages of crisis. It provides an opportunity to ‘renegotiate’ gendered power structures, patriarchal norms and notions of masculinity and femininity. While ensuring the survival of their families in hostile and unfamiliar circumstances of displacement, women take up financial burden of providing for the family and assume non – traditional roles. This research study, however, suggests that displacement has provided new opportunities to women at the cost of adding up new roles into their tasks. Women’s increased economic responsibilities after displacement apparently seem to be temporary because conflict displacement has restricted men’s access to sources of power and wealth. They were unable to meet their traditional role of breadwinner and it required women to assume new responsibilities. No doubt, displacement has created some space to redefine gender norms it is unable to fundamentally alter patriarchal biases and gendered power structures that are responsible for sustaining gender ideologies
Scholarship Donor(s): University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan; Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship
Note: A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Gender and Development of Studies, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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