Cassava production and processing in a cross-cultural sample of african societies

"Where women assume an extreme number of arduous agricultural tasks, with less male involvement, they perform fewer processing tasks" (p.107).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Correlation	Marginally significant	p=.07	r=-.32	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Diversity of processing tasks	Dependent	Food Processing, Division Of Labor By Gender
Women's work in agriculture	Independent	Agriculture, Division Of Labor By Gender

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Romanoff, Steven	1992	"Matrilineality, cassava use, and cassava processing are positively related" (p.104).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bradley, Candice	1984	The value of children (male or female) will be higher if, on important subsistence tasks, children provide assistance to the adults that perform those tasks (170).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Romanoff, Steven	1992	Processing technology or effort (as measured by women's food-labor diversity) is a determinant of production levels (importance of cassava in the diet) (p.105).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Romanoff, Steven	1992	Processing technology will be more highly developed (mechanized) under the same conditions in which agricultural technology is more intense (p.106).	Not Supported	9	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Romanoff, Steven	1992	"Bantu language and cassava are positively associated" (p.104).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author