TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender-blind organizations deliver gender-biased services
T2 - The case of Awasa Bureau of Agriculture in Southern Ethiopia
AU - Buchy, Marlene
AU - Basaznew, F
PY - 2005/7
Y1 - 2005/7
N2 - Despite gender trainings and gender mainstreaming, the Bureau of Agriculture in Ethiopia fails to involve women farmers in its extension activities. Based on interviews with staff members in the Awasa Bureau of Agriculture (ABA) in the Sidama zone of southern Ethiopia, this article shows that ABA, being a gender–blind organization itself, is ill–equipped to motivate its staff to make specific efforts to reach out to women farmers. The systematic absence of gender considerations at all levels of the organization results in its incapacity to address the gendered entrenched position in the field, thus isolating women even further.
AB - Despite gender trainings and gender mainstreaming, the Bureau of Agriculture in Ethiopia fails to involve women farmers in its extension activities. Based on interviews with staff members in the Awasa Bureau of Agriculture (ABA) in the Sidama zone of southern Ethiopia, this article shows that ABA, being a gender–blind organization itself, is ill–equipped to motivate its staff to make specific efforts to reach out to women farmers. The systematic absence of gender considerations at all levels of the organization results in its incapacity to address the gendered entrenched position in the field, thus isolating women even further.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097185240500900204
U2 - 10.1177/097185240500900204
DO - 10.1177/097185240500900204
M3 - Article
SN - 0971-8524
VL - 9
SP - 235
EP - 252
JO - Gender, Technology and Development
JF - Gender, Technology and Development
IS - 2
ER -
