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标题：LEGAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND GENDERED ACCESS TO LAND IN PATRIARCHAL SOCIETIES OF NORTH-WESTERN GHANA
其他标题：LEGAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND GENDERED ACCESS TO LAND IN PATRIARCHAL SOCIETIES OF NORTH-WESTERN GHANA
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作者：Kizito Doghle ; Rudith Sylvana King ; Paul Bniface Akaabre 等
期刊名称：African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
电子版ISSN：2657-2664
出版年度：2018
卷号：1
期号：3
页码：77-99
DOI：10.48346/IMIST.PRSM/ajlp-gs.v1i3.14289
出版社：EL-AYACHI
摘要：Denial of women in land entitlements especially in patriarchal societies has been a major development concern in Ghana, resulting in promulgation of legal establishments that seek to enhance equality in access to land. This paper examines the underlying factors for gender inequality in land access and usage despite laws established to bridge the gap. Interviews with land custodians and households in North-Western Ghana revealed the desire to preserve cultural heritage as the primary reason for non-inclusion of women in access rights. The interpretation of these laws also tend to look at all other things except access to land. Further, limited knowledge about the existence of legal establishments that seek to ensure gender equality accounts for the persisting exclusion of women in access to land. Consequently, legal establishments need not only strict enforcement but also sensitization programs if the persisting gender inequality gap in patriarchal societies is to be bridged.
其他摘要：Denial of women in land entitlements especially in patriarchal societies has been a major development concern in Ghana, resulting in promulgation of legal establishments that seek to enhance equality in access to land. This paper examines the underlying factors for gender inequality in land access and usage despite laws established to bridge the gap. Interviews with land custodians and households in North-Western Ghana revealed the desire to preserve cultural heritage as the primary reason for non-inclusion of women in access rights. The interpretation of these laws also tend to look at all other things except access to land. Further, limited knowledge about the existence of legal establishments that seek to ensure gender equality accounts for the persisting exclusion of women in access to land. Consequently, legal establishments need not only strict enforcement but also sensitization programs if the persisting gender inequality gap in patriarchal societies is to be bridged.
其他关键词：Land;Gender;Ownership and Access;Patriarchal Societies;Rights and Interest;Legal Establishments;Nandom District;North-Western Ghana