TY - JOUR

T1 - Food vending among men in Kumasi

T2 - Socio-cultural advantages, constraints, and coping strategies

AU - Forkuor, John Boulard

AU - Akuoko, Kofi Osei

AU - Yeboah, Erik Henry

AU - Rheinländer, Thilde

AU - Samuelsen, Helle

PY - 2016/1/27

Y1 - 2016/1/27

N2 - Research on men in female-dominated occupations has focused mainly on formal sector occupations in North American and Western European settings. It remains unclear whether men in informal sector occupations in the Global South enjoy advantages, face challenges and adopt coping strategies that are similar to those documented in literature. This research focuses on men in an informal and female-dominated occupation in Ghana. Using semi-structured interviews, this research explores the advantages men enjoy as traditional food vendors, their constraints, and the coping strategies they adopt. This research found that while male traditional food vendors face some social ridicule, they nonetheless enjoy certain gendered advantages at the expense of other female food vendors. This research contributes to a further understanding of the effects of gendered perceptions on the wellbeing of both male and female vendors, and thereby provides stakeholder organisations with knowledge needed to improve the well-being of street food vendors.

AB - Research on men in female-dominated occupations has focused mainly on formal sector occupations in North American and Western European settings. It remains unclear whether men in informal sector occupations in the Global South enjoy advantages, face challenges and adopt coping strategies that are similar to those documented in literature. This research focuses on men in an informal and female-dominated occupation in Ghana. Using semi-structured interviews, this research explores the advantages men enjoy as traditional food vendors, their constraints, and the coping strategies they adopt. This research found that while male traditional food vendors face some social ridicule, they nonetheless enjoy certain gendered advantages at the expense of other female food vendors. This research contributes to a further understanding of the effects of gendered perceptions on the wellbeing of both male and female vendors, and thereby provides stakeholder organisations with knowledge needed to improve the well-being of street food vendors.

U2 - 10.11114/ijsss.v4i2.1278

DO - 10.11114/ijsss.v4i2.1278

M3 - Journal article

VL - 4

SP - 94

EP - 102

JO - International Journal of Social Science Studies

JF - International Journal of Social Science Studies

SN - 2324-8033

IS - 2

ER -