TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgement Introduction General ...

and social issues discussed have shown good results.
Sample issues discussed after the learning sessions
People's reaction to the birth of a baby girl
Attitudes towards boy and girl
Recreation time for male and female members
Decision-making process in the family
Barriers to women development in families
Gender-based labor division
Health of women
Family conflict
Savings utilization
Recognition of women's work
Decline in social values
Gender sensitive technology development
In developing technologies, women’s needs should be considered. Technologies
should not add risk to the end-user and should be women-friendly.
Input supply
Gender sensitive technologies
In Cambodia, termites and other available feed resources are used as fish
feed. However, Cambodian women treat the task of termite collection as an
additional work load. Moreover, because of security concerns, they are
unable to move freely to collect termites. Instead, the green water
technology, which is effective in promoting the growth of plankton feeding
fishes, was preferred by women. They understood the benefits of this
technology in influencing fish growth and began to advocate plankton as
fish food comparing its effect to that of "mother’s milk to baby".
In Bangladesh, several women are involved in making prawn/fish feed at
home for their own use. It has also become an important income generating
activity as they can sell feed to other farmers in the area.
Women are comfortable making feeds as they already know
how to make rice noodles. In fact, they use the same noodlemaking
machine to make feeds.