Abstract EN:

The purpose of this study is to describe the conditions of women in rural areas cameroon, who are those women ? What are their responsabilities ? And what problems they face in their work ? Our attention is focused on the regional differences in the status of women, their work, in traditional and modern societies. Our work is partially based on the data collected during afield-work researsh that we conducted in two villages, nlong and fontsa-toula. The natural conditions, the basic activities of the population, and the existing social organisation influence the sexual division of labour, land allocation, and the nature of feminine associations. This socio-cultural web will again influence the peasant activities today, our field data in nlong (eton's country, south central province) and fontsa-toula (bamileke's country western province) will confirm this hypothesis. It is essentially in the field of production, marketing of crops, and use of money, that we reveal the difference of strategies adopted by women in these two villages. It is true that the cultural back-ground of peasant women is adeterminant factor in analysis, nevertheless, we realize that if the problems of peasant women are accentuated because they are women, they joined also these of agricultural development in cameroon, and the rural world in general. Sexe is adiscriminating factor in : land allocation, mangement of domestic production and time use. . . . .