scholarly journals Entrepreneurship, Microfinance and Social Relation: An Empirical Analysis of Women's Perceptions

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
Dhaneshwar Rakhal
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women’S Perceptions

Women can become active entrepreneurs, if they are provided with easy access to the financial services. Microfinance provides access to financial services that can help women to improve their economic life by both promoting opportunities of entrepreneurship and facilitating for the women empowerment. It means microfinance can create opportunities for economic wellbeing, and make them economically independent. Accordingly, this paper explores the women's experiences on microfinance schemes aimed at creating independent women entrepreneurs.Journal of Nepalese Business Studies Vol. 9, No. 1, 2015 pp. 116-125

An Examination of Women's Perspectives on Power

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia L. Miller ◽  
A. Gaye Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Personal Authority ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Men's Experience ◽  
The Way

Historically, theoretical and popular conceptions about power have not included or addressed women's experiences. This study adds to the growing body of knowledge about women by examining women's perceptions of and relationship to power. One hundred twenty-five women, ranging in age from 21 to 63, were asked to define and explore power through a variety of structured and open-ended questions. The results showed that women's definition of power differed significantly from their perception of society's definition of power, as well as from the way power has traditionally been conceptualized. More theoretical and empirical attention should be given to understanding the role of personal authority in both women's and men's experience of power.

scholarly journals Consequences of Gossiping on Women Empowerment

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Shumaila Umer ◽  
Zaheruddin Othman ◽  
Kalthum Bt Haji Hassan ◽  
Rahila Umer ◽  
Habib Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Inductive Approach ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractGossip is prevalent and is widespread in human society. Gossip has been denigrated as ‘idle talk’, mostly among women based on ‘trifling or groundless rumour’. The nature and intensity of gossiping victimise women in society. Consequently, women bear serious threat to their well standardized lives. The study aims to understand the women’s experiences with gossiping as a barrier to empowerment. This is a qualitative study with inductive approach. Men and Women are selected as a informants for this study. The data were congregated through in-depth interviews. The results indicate that gossiping or fear of being gossiped is a strong social control in the social setup of Balochistan. This prevents women from being empowered. This paper is intended to be a contribution to exploiting the ideas of women about gossiping as an essential social control or barrier for empowering women.

Soviet and American Childbearing Experiences and Attitudes: A Comparison

Slavic Review ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Ispa
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
The West ◽  
Obstetrical Care ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Pregnancy And Childbirth ◽  
Uterine Contractions ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Pregnancy And Delivery

In 1951, and again in 1955, Dr. Fernand Lamaze, a French obstetrician, traveled to the Soviet Union to study “psychoprophylaxis,” a method designed by Soviet psychologists, obstetricians, and neurologists to help women overcome pain and fear during childbirth. The method, which was rooted in the medical use of hypnosis and suggestion to alleviate pain, involved training women to take their minds off uterine contractions by concentrating instead on other bodily functions, such as breathing. Lamaze refined the method and brought it to the West.Lamaze's account of his indebtedness to Soviet scientists suggests that it may be useful to learn more about Soviet women's experiences during pregnancy and childbirth. Perusal of the literature, however, indicates that, while general descriptions in English of Soviet obstetrical care are available, very little is known about Soviet women's perceptions of and attitudes toward pregnancy and delivery.

scholarly journals MICROFINANCE AND SOCIO-CULTURAL AND FAMILIAL EMPOWERMENT: A STUDY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WOMEN PARTICIPANTS OF SELFHELP GROUPS IN DELHI AND HARYANA

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-53
Author(s):  
Aarti Dhanrajani ◽  
Sanjiv Mittal
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Loan Portfolio ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Familial Context

Microfinance provides access to financial services to the underprivileged people, specifically women. The sector is currently having a total loan portfolio worth 1.785 trillion according to the SIDBI Microfinance Pulse Report 2019.With respect to women empowerment, microfinance plays a special role by providing the women easy access to credit through which they get the confidence in starting their own businesses and become independent. Women empowerment is multi-dimensional in nature and comprises of economic,socio-economic and skill empowerment.The present paper attempts to find out if microfinance program through Self-Help Groups (SHGs) is effective in empowering women in socio-cultural and familial context. The study was conducted through a questionnaire involving 500 respondents from SHGs of Delhi and Haryana. It was found that there is significant relation between the microfinance program participation duration and the socio-cultural and familial empowerment. The study found evidence that microfinance program along with providing financial assistance to the women participants aid in empowering the women in socio-cultural and familial domain.

scholarly journals Microfinance Services and Women Empowerment in Biratnagar Metropolitan, Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-270
Author(s):  
Bandana Kumari Jain
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Nepali Women ◽  
Major Decision

This article examines how far microfinancing services positively affect the empowerment of Nepali women living in the eastern part of Nepal. A purposive sampling method was used and responses of 97 women were collected through structured questionnaires. The women were using microfinance services on their own and at least from the last three years. Results indicate that the use of microfinance services (credit and saving) helps women to empower. Easy access to financial services and satisfaction with the loan payment period causes no difference in the improvement of women’s empowerment. Saving service is significantly associated with women’s household decision-making, major decision-making in the domestic context, and availability of basic household needs. Microfinance services contribute to women’s socio-economic empowerment and their children’s education.

scholarly journals Measuring women's experiences of childbirth using the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 306-312
Author(s):  
Caroline J Hollins Martin ◽  
Lucia Jimenez Martinez ◽  
Colin R Martin
Keyword(s):  
Self Report ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Pregnancy And Childbirth ◽  
Childbirth Experience ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Birth Satisfaction ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Standard Set

Birth satisfaction relates to women's perceptions of their childbirth experience, with importance placed on the midwife to improve standards of the intranatal care provided. With evaluating intranatal care in mind, this paper aims to educate midwives about one particular method of measuring women's experiences of labour, which involves using the valid and reliable Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R). The BSS-R is a 10-item self-report valid and reliable measure, which is recommended by the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) as the ‘method of choice’ for evaluating women's ‘birth experience’. Since the ICHOM began recommending the BSS-R as part of its pregnancy and childbirth standard set, the scale (at time of print) has been used in 39 countries and 134 sites around the world.

scholarly journals Childbearing Women’s Experiences of Early Pushing Urge

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Monica Celesia ◽  
Antonella Nespoli ◽  
Sara E. Borrelli
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Maternity Hospital ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological Study

AIM: To explore childbearing women’s experiences of early pushing urge (EPU).STUDY DESIGN: A qualitative phenomenological study was undertaken in an Italian maternity hospital. The sample included 8 women that experienced EPU during labor. Data were collected through semistructured interviews.FINDINGS: The findings are presented as three main themes: (a) women’s perceptions of EPU, (b) bodily sensations versus midwives’ advice: struggling between conflicting messages, and (c) the “a posteriori” feeling of women about midwives’ guidance during EPU. The perception of EPU was characterized by sense of obstruction, bone pain, and different intensity of pushing efforts when compared with those of the expulsive phase. Women found it difficult to follow the midwife’s suggestion to stop pushing because this contradicted their bodily sensations. However, the women recognized a posteriori the importance of the midwife’s support while experiencing EPU. Women appreciated the midwives’ presence and emotional support most of all because they seemed to be more concerned with the personal relationship they formed in labor rather than the usefulness or appropriateness of their advice.CONCLUSION: Midwives should consider women’s physical perceptions to help them cope with EPU, acknowledging that women may struggle when caregivers’ suggestions are in contrast to their physical perceptions. The women’s overall positive experiences of birth suggest that EPU might be considered as a physiological event during labor, reinforcing the hypotheses of previous research. The optimal response to the EPU phenomenon remains unclear and should be studied, considering EPU at different dilatation ranges and related clinical outcomes.

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