The Profile of Liberian Women in Marketing

The present work has provided a broad view or picture of the roles played by Liberian market women in the country¿s food distribution and marketing systems. It has indicated the main reliefs of women¿s participation or nonparticipation in this area of the country's economic development. The next step, on the basis of the study's objective and recommendations, would be the identification of one or more discrete micro-studies to enable planning and development agencies to design plans and/or policies for implementation. As suggested by the two recommendations made above, it would seem appropriate at this point to undertake a detail study of the marketing capital acquisition, formation and expansion by market women and analyze the possible constraints that such factors impose on Liberian women's roles and status. Such a study will permit the identification of alternative ways of providing women with their initial capital to establish for them an independent source of working capital and /or capital expansion.