Care of female children
Gender differences in
nutritional status in childhood shows women are nutritionally handicap, and
also evidence of the problems experienced by women (mothers) in the exercise of
their of their child care and feeding responsibilities. Although child.
Nutritional status is clearly the outcome of a best of factors, starting with
the nutritional status of pregnant women, gender differentials are established
during the breastfeeding and supplementation stages. A study Akwukwu-Igbo
community found that while male children were breastfeed for five months longer
than female children on the average, male children in landed families were
breastfeeding almost ten months more than female children in agricultural
(labour households).
nutritional status in childhood shows women are nutritionally handicap, and
also evidence of the problems experienced by women (mothers) in the exercise of
their of their child care and feeding responsibilities. Although child.
Nutritional status is clearly the outcome of a best of factors, starting with
the nutritional status of pregnant women, gender differentials are established
during the breastfeeding and supplementation stages. A study Akwukwu-Igbo
community found that while male children were breastfeed for five months longer
than female children on the average, male children in landed families were
breastfeeding almost ten months more than female children in agricultural
(labour households).
Women’s role as “providers”
Women also exercise nutritional
effect on the household by the acquisition of food through work, and by the
preparation of food for consumption. Thus, women’s employment, income and
“decision making power” vice versa the disposal of their income, on the one
hand, their ability to cook and serve appropriate quantities of food to
individual based on nutritional knowledge and “autonomy” in “kitchen”
decision-making. On the other, are important determinants of women’s
nutrition-related rules. Therefore, the performance of these roles is related
to women’s social and economic status.
effect on the household by the acquisition of food through work, and by the
preparation of food for consumption. Thus, women’s employment, income and
“decision making power” vice versa the disposal of their income, on the one
hand, their ability to cook and serve appropriate quantities of food to
individual based on nutritional knowledge and “autonomy” in “kitchen”
decision-making. On the other, are important determinants of women’s
nutrition-related rules. Therefore, the performance of these roles is related
to women’s social and economic status.
Women’s social status
Women’s inadequate dietary
intake and poor nutritional status are founded in the anthropological
observation that women and girls ea “last and least” a reflection of the
inferior social status they are accorded in their life cycles.
intake and poor nutritional status are founded in the anthropological
observation that women and girls ea “last and least” a reflection of the
inferior social status they are accorded in their life cycles.
