Gender-based differentiation among poultry farm workers in selected areas of Cavite / by Jeen Louise R. Angcaya, Keizzel Marie C. Barrera and Jada Lixian R. Pel.

Thesis (Bachelor of Science in Business Management Major in Operations Management) Cavite State University.

Includes bibliographical references.

College of Economics, Management and Development Studies (CEMDS), Department of Management

ANGCAYA, JEERS LOUISE R., BARRERA, KEIZZEL MARIE C. and PEL, JADA LIXIAN R., Gender-Based Differentiation Among Poultry Farm Workers in Selected Areas of Cavite. Undergraduate Thesis. Bachelor of Science in Business Management major in Operations Management. Cavite State University, Indang, Cavite June 2019. Adviser: Engr. Gilberto S. David.

The study was conducted to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of poultry farm workers and their household; determine the characteristics of poultry farm business; describe the nature of participation of male and female poultry farm workers in productive activities; describe the nature of participation of male and female household members in reproductive and community activities of poultry farm workers; identify who among male and female household members have access and control over resources and benefits of poultry farm workers; and determine how much time is allocated by male and female poultry farm workers to their daily activities.

A total of 106 poultry farm workers served as the participants of the study. Purposive sampling technique was used in identifying the respondents that were included in the study. Descriptive statistics such as frequency count, percentage, range, and mean were used to describe the participants' profile, characteristics of households, characteristics of poultry farm business, and gender-based differentiation among poultry farm workers.
The age of poultry farm workers ranged from 20-71 years. Majority of the poultry farm workers were male (72.6%) while 27.3 percent were female. Most of the participants were married, were able to finish secondary education, had a nuclear family, and a smaller household size of 2 to 4 members.

The female participants had the major responsibilities in most of the
reproductive activities like food preparations, going to the market/shopping, child care, tutoring the child, care of the elders/sick, cleaning the house, cleaning the surroundings, washing the clothes, ironing the clothes, and washing the dishes while the male participants had higher involvement in fetching water, repairing the house, and gathering woods.

On the other hand, male participants dominated the female participants in most of the productive activities, namely: weighing and measuring raw materials needed in making feeds, grinding of corns, mixing the raw materials, packing of feeds, putting feeds in the flat/chicken feeder, putting water on the gallon jar/tubes,
giving vitamins to the chicken, inspecting/monitoring the chicken house to identify
sick or injured birds, giving antibiotics, providing or controlling the heating system
providing or controlling the ventilation system, monitoring the inventory of the poultry feeds and supplies, selecting and ordering of feeds, vitamins, vaccines, and antibiotics, receiving feeds, vitamins, vaccines, and antibiotics, collecting of eggs, collecting of chickens, weighing of chickens, classification of chickens by weight, removing dead chicks and chickens, collecting of chicken manures, cleaning the pathway, washing and spraying of house flooring, fumigating the chicken house, and repairing and maintenance of chicken house while female participants had the major responsibilities in weighing of eggs, classification of eggs by weight, accepting orders from the customers, receiving payment from the customers, managing and providing sales report, computing and providing records regarding expenses, providing payroll for the employees, checking and verifying the reports, and others.
Moreover, the male participants had more access and control over resources including land and farm equipment while the female participants had more access and control over resources including cash and home appliances, namely: television, oven toaster, washing machine, rice cooker, radio, CD/DVD player, iron, and gas stove.Mothers had more access and control on benefits like salary/income and harvest.

Submitted to the University Library 08/05/2019 T-8598