Senorina Wendoh

Bio: Senorina Wendoh is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Applied anthropology & Medical anthropology. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 27 citations.

“Boys Can Be Anything”: Effect of Barbie Play on Girls’ Career Cognitions

Abstract: Play with Barbie dolls is an understudied source of gendered socialization that may convey a sexualized adult world to young girls. Early exposure to sexualized images may have unintended consequences in the form of perceived limitations on future selves. We investigated perceptions of careers girls felt they could do in the future as compared to the number of careers they felt boys could do as a function of condition (playing with a Barbie or Mrs. Potato Head doll) and type of career (male dominated or female dominated) in a sample of 37 U.S. girls aged 4–7 years old residing in the Pacific Northwest. After a randomly assigned 5-min exposure to condition, children were asked how many of ten different occupations they themselves could do in the future and how many of those occupations a boy could do. Data were analyzed with a 2 × 2 × 2 mixed factorial ANOVA. Averaged across condition, girls reported that boys could do significantly more occupations than they could themselves, especially when considering male-dominated careers. In addition, girls’ ideas about careers for themselves compared to careers for boys interacted with condition, such that girls who played with Barbie indicated that they had fewer future career options than boys, whereas girls who played with Mrs. Potato Head reported a smaller difference between future possible careers for themselves as compared to boys. Results support predictions from gender socialization and objectification theories.

Feminization of agriculture in the context of rural transformations : what is the evidence?

Abstract: Male outmigration, the globalization of agri-food systems, conflict, and pandemic human disease have all been linked to changes in rural economies, changes in women’s roles in the agricultural sector, and consequently to assertions that agriculture is “feminizing.” This review assesses the global evidence surrounding the feminization of agriculture. First, it proposes a number of indicators to track the feminization of agriculture, noting that although limited data exist for some of the indicators, efforts should be expanded to collect data for all of them to provide better diagnostics of women’s work in agriculture and their welfare. Next, it critically examines the factors that may lead to the feminization of agriculture and evaluates the empirical evidence on each factor worldwide. The review concludes by identifying policy imperatives based on the evidence on women’s roles in agriculture in the context of rural transformation

Globalization, Production and Poverty

Abstract: The impact of globalization on poverty is a key area of both academic and political debate. However, the analysis of the relationship between the two, as it has developed so far, has serious limitations. The bulk of the literature has focused on trade and poverty, while other dimensions of globalization have received relatively little attention.1 Moreover, most of the literature on trade and poverty is in fact about the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and therefore about the effects of a particular trade policy.2