Changing Gender Relations and Its Influence on Female Migration
      Decision in India

This paper is an attempt to understand the position of Indian women in the family and its influence on their migration decision. The migration-empowerment relation can be explained through relative measures like intra-household decision making indicators, and age and educational differences. The data for the purpose of the study has been drawn from the various rounds of NSSO and NFHS and it has been analysed at the state level due to data limitations for explanatory variables at the household level. The bi-variate findings show economic decision making related to large household purchases, decisions on mobility and spousal educational differences which exhibit a linear relation with the women’s migration decision. The empirical findings suggest the women’s greater involvement on own health care, spousal age and educational differences significantly influence their migration decision. This suggests that women’s empowerment influences their migration decision. JEL Classification: J10, J16 Keywords: Empowerment, Migration, Women, India, Relative Measures

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Women’s participation in decision-making and its implications for human capital investment

European Review of Agricultural Economics ◽

10.1093/erae/jbaa008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 47 (5) ◽

pp. 1803-1825 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Orkhan Sariyev ◽

Tim K Loos ◽

Manfred Zeller

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Human Resources ◽

Capital Investment ◽

Dietary Diversity ◽

Positive Association ◽

Household Decision ◽

Household Level ◽

Household Decision Making ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Participation In Decision Making

Abstract We evaluate the implications of women’s participation in domestic decision-making on diets and investments in human resources in Ethiopian rural households. We create a metric to capture intra-household decision-making, which we use to estimate a positive association between women’s participation in decision-making and household-level dietary diversity. Moreover, we find that an increase in women’s participation in intra-household decision-making is associated with higher financial investments in human resources.

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Women in Here, Women in There: Changing Roles and Lives of Women Migrants from Turkey in Italy

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v16i4.607 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 531-541

Author(s):

Gül İnce Beqo

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Extended Family ◽

Migration Decision ◽

Women Migrants ◽

Family Ties ◽

Household Decision ◽

Changing Roles ◽

Cultural Code ◽

Migration Experiences

Drawing on interviews with families from Turkey living in Northern Italy and a series of observations, this article focuses on the construction of gender roles through migration experiences and men and women’s agency in migration decision-making. Acknowledging the theoretical dichotomy between women being victims or conscious agents in the migratory process, I argue that (1) extended family ties of the country of origin are crucial for comprehending the transformation of gender roles in the migration context and that (2) living away from extended family ties gives women the opportunity to transform the roles attributed to them. Their migration experience seems to give them more possibilities for their needs to be taken into consideration by their husbands in household decision–making. For men, this change is almost never pleasant; in fact, the connotation given to the word 'transformation' is determined by the cultural code that favours the strong gender segmentation. Women like to change while men don't. Such a transformation in family life could also explain the lack of willingness of migrant women to return definitively to Turkey despite all the difficulties faced in Italy.

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Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence in Pakistan: Results From a Nationally Representative Survey

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260517690873 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 35 (3-4) ◽

pp. 854-875 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Nadine Shaanta Murshid ◽

Filomena M. Critelli

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Decision Making ◽

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Household Decision ◽

Household Decision Making ◽

Economic Decision Making ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Controlling Behaviors

Using empowerment theory, the current study examines antecedents of lifetime experience of intimate partner violence, intimate partner violence experienced in the last 12 months, emotional violence, and husbands’ controlling behaviors toward their wives in Pakistan. Using data from a subsample of 658 women from the nationally representative Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2012-2013, this study examined whether empowerment variables, such as household decision-making power, economic decision-making power, and adherence to patriarchy, operationalized as justification of wife beating, contribute to intimate partner violence using logistic regression analyses. Results indicate that adherence to patriarchal norms, household decision-making power, and higher education was found to be associated with lifetime prevalence of intimate partner violence. Adherence to patriarchal norms, economic decision-making power, and higher education was found significantly associated with intimate partner violence in the past 12 months. Adherence to patriarchal norms was significantly associated with experiencing emotional violence as well as controlling behaviors by husbands. In conclusion, women’s adherence to patriarchal norms is a reflection of the patriarchal society in which they live; indeed, this was found to be the most important predictor of women’s experience of intimate partner violence, when different types of violence were assessed. Implications for social work practice are discussed.

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Women Entrepreneurship Development in Yemen: The Role of Decision-Making Empowerment

Journal of Impact ◽

10.48110/joi.v2i2.41 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 71-86

Author(s):

Abeer Al-Radami ◽

Mohammed Saleh Al-Abed

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Strong Positive Correlation ◽

Women Entrepreneurship ◽

Economic Decision ◽

Entrepreneurship Development ◽

Household Decision ◽

Household Decision Making ◽

Economic Decision Making ◽

The Impact

This research was conducted to examine the impact of decision-making empowerment on women entrepreneurship development in Yemen. Two dimensions of decision-making empowerment were used; economic decision making, and household decision-making empowerment. This study employed the quantitative approach and the method of collecting data was the online-questionnaire. The targeted sample size of this study was 200 business women in Yemen and the response rate was 96.5%. The results of the correlational analysis show that there is a clear strong positive correlation between decision-making empowerment and women entrepreneurship development. In addition, the two dimensions; economic decision making, and household decision-making have a significant relationship with women entrepreneurship development. The results of the regression analysis reveal that decision-making empowerment has a significant impact on women entrepreneurship development and the economic decision-making empowerment and household decision-making empowerment were explaining women entrepreneurship development. It can be concluded that empowering women by allowing them to participate in economic and household decision-making appears to be one of the important factors for developing women's entrepreneurship in particular, which in turn will help reduce poverty as well as achieve economic growth.

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Disease Contour and Household Decision Making: A Gender Comparative Study of Older Persons

Global Sociological Review ◽

10.31703/gsr.2020(v-i).03 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol V (I) ◽

pp. 16-23

Author(s):

Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry ◽

Aftab Ahmed

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Older Persons ◽

State Level ◽

Research Field ◽

P Value ◽

Household Decision ◽

Household Decision Making ◽

Collection Data ◽

Cross Tabulation ◽

The Relationship

Aging is a global demographic phenomenon. The Aging in Pakistan is a grave matter of concern which is neglected not only at state level but in research field too. This study focused to explore the relationship between disease profile and participation of older persons (OPs) in household decision making. A sample of 384 OPs was selected from Rawalpindi for data collection. Data were entered and analyzed in SPSS. Male participation was 70% and 30% of females. The findings of the research indicate 8.1% of cases of hypertension among older persons, heart problems were reported in 12.8% cases and 15.1% of the sample suffering from Diabetes. Cross-tabulation of data shows that the Pearson value is 32.552 and the calculated p-value is .000 [p<.05], this shows that a significant association prevails among household decision making of older persons and their disease profile with special reference to gender group. This also helps to conclude that active yet age bound involvement in household matters in old age is healthy for older persons.

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