ABSTRACT
Peasant women traditionally have generated income either directly by earning money or indirectly by providing expenditure-saving goods. Moreover, when asked, peasant women stress the need for increasing income generation opportunities. This chapter analyzes how women's income generation projects got on the development agenda. It presents three different models that have served as strategies for women's income generation projects and describes cases illustrative of these. Rural women's need for income in cash or in kind could be met in a variety of ways. Neither land reform, import or export substitution industrialization, nor labor organizing included rural women to any significant degree. Women's income generation projects thus meet the demands of both national governments and international donors in the mid-1980s. Women's income generation projects have been attempted by nongovernmental groups. Past income generation projects differ from job creation activities carried on by either public or private sector, A job creation activity assumes a straightforward, formal, contractual relationship between capital and labor.
