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Thesis explores the status of Moroccan women ■A graduate student finds that women do better in villages working with a non governmental organization By Serena Markstrom Oregon Daily Emerald For the planning, public policy and management department’s fi nal Geographic Society meeting, Rose Armour presented her re search findings after spending nine months in Morocco shadow ing and surveying women for her masters thesis. Armour spent time in four rural Moroccan villages looking at lead ership, education, health and in come generation activity, compar ing her field study results with the findings in a 1997 UNICEF survey. Since 1997, the Modular ap proach of the Near East Founda tion, a New York-based non-gov ernmental organization that promotes sustainable develop ment has been in place in two of the villages. Armour’s research compared NEF villages to non NEF villages. In the two NEF villages literacy rates were 20 percent or higher, but in non-NEF villages none of the women could read and write. Jeffrey Magoto, director of the Yamada Language Center, spent 1978 through 1980 in Morocco as a Peace Corps volunteer and said he was surprised that the NEF had so much success in improv ing literacy rates. “It shows what they were trying to do was working,” Magoto said. The main source of income in the southern Moroccan villages is weaving, with some women spending as much as eight hours per day at the task. The men do not weave but they have complete control of selling the product in markets. Part of the NEF program is increasing the amount of voice women have in village decisions. “They have no control over the marketing of their product,” Ar mour said, adding that women earn about five cents per hour for each rug, which take about two weeks to weave. Elizabeth Wartluft, a doctorate student in anthropology who also spent time in Morocco as a Peace Corps volunteer in the late 80s, said she was impressed that women in NEF villages are gain ing decision-making power. “That women are getting input on council is astonishing,” she said. When Armour surveyed the men, they told her that since the NEF arrived in 1987, the women have increased their levels of self-confidence and are more op timistic about their futures than in non-NEF villages. Because of the nature of the culture, Armour could not con duct her surveys alone with the women. At first this bothered her, she said, but it ended up be ing an advantage. The group setting worked as a .check system because if one woman said, for example, her av erage workload per day for a par ticular task, another woman Catharine Kendall Emerald Rose Armour presents her graduate thesis research in ‘Empowering Women Through Rural Gender Developments' to the Geographical Society Tuesday evening. would say whether she was exag gerating. “It made it more honest that they had to do it in a group,” Ar mour said. Armour also shadowed one woman in each of the four vil lages, often conducting inter views in the kitchen because it was the only place she and her hired interpreter could be alone with the women. “They had never been asked about this stuff," she said. “The women were overwhelmingly ea ger to talk.” Registering continued from page 1 For young men born in 1980 who are now 19 and 20 years old, the average age for college fresh man, the compliance rate is about 83 percent, Brodsky said. A state-by-state survey issued by the agency showed some large states had low registration levels among men — California with 79 percent and Texas at 77 percent. New Hampshire, by contrast, ranked highest with 95 percent. The law requires all young men living in the United States to reg ister with the Selective Service within 30 days of their 18th birth day. That includes immigrants and non-citizen residents of the United States. The names are gathered in case a national emergency should re quire a military draft. The last ac tual draft was in 1973 near the end of the Vietnam era. Failure to register can cost young men their chance at finan cial aid from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, govern ment loans and grants, job train ing, government jobs and citizen ship for male immigrants. It is also a felony punishable by up to five years in jaii or prison and a fine of up to $250,000, but such cases are rarely prosecuted. 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