Gender Empowerment in Agriculture and Development: A Case Study using Aquaculture

Essential Questions and Objectives Essential Questions 1. What role do women play in agriculture production in different parts of the world? 2. What resources are needed to empower women in the field of agriculture? 3. What is the impact economically, socially, politically, and environmentally in empowering women in the field of agriculture? Objectives: 1. Students will be able to explain the difference in women’s involvement in agriculture in LDCs and MDCs. 2. Students will be able to explain how gender empowerment reduces a state’s level of gender inequality using the case study of Bangladesh women in aquaculture.

What is Gender Inequality? Men and women are not equal Rubenstein: “The UN has not found a single country in the world where women are treated as well as the men…The UN argues that inequality between men and women is a major factor that keeps a country from achieving a high level of development.”

What is Gender Empowerment? Rubenstein: “…empowerment refers to the ability of women to achieve improvements in their own status – that is, to achieve economic and political power.” Used by the UN as part of the Gender Inequality Index: Empowerment involves: Level of education Number of legislative seats held by women

GEM ∼ Gender Empowerment Measure Part of the Human Development Index Examines the extent to which women and men are able to actively participate in economic and political life and take part in decision-making More Power → Higher level of Development

To the Maps! Women in Agriculture LDCs and MDCs Gender Empowerment What connections can you make between these maps?

Women in Agriculture

Gender Empowerment

2008 FRQ #3

Women and Aquaculture

Collaborative Group Activity: Case Study Analysis Focus Question: How will empowerment in small-scale agriculture result in decreasing gender inequality and impact the development of a nation? Small Group work: 1. ESPeN Preparation including Gapminder Data Collection Evidence 2. ESPeN Talking Head Analysis of Bangladesh 3. Flow Chart Creation (Small Scale Agriculture → Gender Equality)

Whole Class Debrief How does your groups flowchart compare to the one created by the researchers?

What resources are needed to empower women in aquaculture?

What is the impact Economically, Socially, Politically, and eNvironmentally in empowering women in the field of agriculture?

Synapse Questions 1.What are the long-term effects on development with training women in the field of agriculture? Remember ESPeN! List at least two for each category. 2.How are gender equity and economic development related? 3.Are women’s activities in aquaculture sustainable? 4.Explain how each of the following individuals (or models ) would respond to the case study results in Bangladesh: A. Judith Carney B. E. Adamson Hoebel C. Demographic Transition Model D. Johann Heinrich von Thünen