Rural African Women ~ Day In The Life Of...

I had a great discussion earlier this week at MIT with Zubaida Bai who's currently at Colorado State working with Paul Hudnut and colleagues on Global Social and Sustainable Enterprises. Zubaida is especially interested in empowering rural women globally. So we got to talking about what such women need most -- how do they currently spend their time and scarce resources, what are their prime burdens, what do they wish was easier or cheaper -- and so forth. This is an ongoing market research project, but there are some aggregate data available. The Rehydration Project, in particular, has a set of graphics about Women-at-Risk including this chronograph of a day in the life of a typical rural African woman... And this Division Of Labour chart...