scholarly journals Women’s Empowerment, Research, and Management: Their Contribution to Social Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12754
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Ventura ◽  
Lourdes Morillas ◽  
Maria Amélia Martins-Loução ◽  
Cristina Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
And Gender

This article enhances some ideas and opinions related with the challenges that women across the world face nowadays to pursue a professional career. The route they take has frequent obstacles of a distinct nature, which are not always comparable with those faced by men. The starting point of this work is the conclusions of the workshop “Women empowerment and gender equality, responsible research and innovation”—Research Project “SOILdarity”. This workshop revealed a diversified view about the subject, evidencing its connection with the social sustainability, with a special focus on academia and research management. This document introduces the topic in the context of the workshop, revises key aspects of women’s empowerment in a society still dominated by men’s opinions and organization (gender balance, obstacles and strategies), highlights the situation of women in academia and in research management, and gives the authors’ opinions about some questions related to gender and equality. We conclude that all societal actors must acknowledge women as key actors in contributing to social sustainability, working together towards creating an environment where they can have leadership roles.

scholarly journals Combined interventions Targeting Agriculture, Gender and Nutrition Improve Agriculture Production and Diet Diversity More Than Individual interventions in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 798-798
Author(s):  
Akhter Ahmed ◽  
John Hoddinott ◽  
Agnes Quisumbing ◽  
Purnima Menon ◽  
Julie Ghostlaw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Diet Diversity ◽  
Training Models ◽  
Nutrition Training ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Objectives Secondary data analysis in Bangladesh has found associations across agricultural production, women's empowerment, and nutrition outcomes. Less is known, though, about whether combining interventions across these areas is more effective than isolated interventions to improve agricultural diversity, diet diversity, and women's empowerment in Bangladesh. Methods The Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages study used a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate impacts of agriculture, nutrition, and/or gender interventions on food production, diets, and empowerment. 160 blocks were randomized to control and 5 training models: (T1) nutrition by government agriculture extension agents (AEAs); (T2) nutrition by community nutrition workers; (T3) agriculture on production of nutrient-rich foods by AEAs; (T4) agriculture and nutrition by AEAs; and (T5) agriculture and nutrition by AEAs, and gender sensitization. Trainings targeted men and women together. 4000 farm households with a child under age 2 at baseline were surveyed 2 years apart. Impact estimates used endline data, adjusting for baseline characteristics using analysis of covariance. Results All treatments significantly improved agriculture production knowledge and adoption of improved production practices, more so in arms with agriculture training (T3, T4, T5), and for women than men. All treatments significantly improved nutrition knowledge, more so in arms with nutrition training, and for women than men. Household diet quality and child diet diversity significantly improved only in T2 and T4. Women's empowerment significantly improved in all treatments, and men's gender attitudes improved in T1, T4, T5, more so in the gender arm (T5). No impacts were expected or found on child anthropometry. Conclusions Joint interventions had larger impacts than isolated ones, suggesting synergies across agriculture, nutrition, and gender. Impact on food and nutrition outcomes (food production or nutrition practices) required agriculture and/or nutrition training. Funding Sources USAID; the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and the CGIAR Research Programs on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health and Policies, Institutions, and Markets.

scholarly journals Micro-finance and Women Empowerment

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puspa Raj Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Small Change ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Micro Credit

This paper examines the effects of women’s participation in group-based micro-credit pro-grams on a large set of qualitative responses to questions that characterize women’s autonomy and gender relations within the household. The data come from a special survey carried out in hill and tarai in 2004-2006 of Nepal. The results are consistent with the view that women’s participation in micro-credit programs helps to increase women’s empowerment. Credit program participation leads to women taking a greater role in household decision-making, having greater access to financial and economic resources, having greater social networks, having greater bargaining power compared with their husbands, and having greater freedom of mobility. Female credit also tended to increase spousal communication in general about family planning and parenting concerns. Ecologically, the higher impact on women’s empowerment was noticed in terai. The reason may be relatively lower social and economic status of terai women at the time of program initiation compared to that of hills. As a result, even a small change in their status would get reflected distinctly. The Journal of Nepalese Business Studies Vol. IV, No. 1 (2007) pp. 16-27

scholarly journals Saudisation and Women’s Empowerment through Employment in the Health Care Sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Fatemah Alghamdi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Health Care Sector ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

<p>The majority of studies concerning Saudisation policy as a solution to decrease the unemployment of nationals and reduce the reliance on expatriate. However, this study looks at Saudisation as a tool to empower Saudi women working in the health care sector. Saudi working women have been lacking opportunities of empowerment, due to challenges they face in their daily life that hinder the development and equality of those women.  The thesis has been guided by the literature and qualitative evidence that suggests obstacles to women’s empowerment and development involve socially constructed norms, traditions, religion and culture that primarily favour men. The study, also, adopts feminist geography and gender perspective and focuses on the individual voices of women working in the health care sector. This research uses different empowerment frameworks of Kabeer, Rowland, Stromquist and Freire, which are relevant to women employment and empowerment. This research utilises feminist methodology in obtaining deep understanding of the reality and experience of women employed in the health care sector.  Findings of this research reveal conditions that maintain disempowerment of women working in health care sector, as well as identifying the tools that might guarantee their empowerment. Findings also show those women necessities in the case of gender needs that revolve around their domestic and working responsibilities.  This thesis provides some recommendations to government, policy makers, educational institutions and employers about how to contribute in empowering women and overcoming challenges that hinder their development and wellbeing. Ultimately, this study aimed to, first, contribute to the literature of women’s empowerment by exploring their employment in a Saudi context and second, to put the spotlight on Saudi women’s issues through development lens and enrich that field of study.</p>

scholarly journals Pros and Cons of Women Empowerment Methodologies/Approches: A Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neha Singh ◽  
Khusboo Raj ◽  
Sarvjeet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Related Development ◽  
Survey Instruments ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

As the concept of “empowerment” varies depending on the context or circumstances with different meanings and terminologies by different researchers the methods for systematically measuring empowerment differs. Multiple important instruments are constructed to monitor progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment at a regional and global scale. The paper will highlight particularly on the approaches developed by UNDP like Gender-related Development Index (GDI), Women’s Empowerment Index (WEI) etc with special focus on pros and cons of each methodology. Although many studies and discussions around empowerment are commonly limited to activities like “economic”, “social” and “political” forms of empowerment. Therefore it sometimes also requires interventions that are beyond survey and are more holistic that explores other dimensions that have practical implications for to women’s empowerment. The paper also reflects on some different kinds of non-survey instruments that can be useful for measuring women’s empowerment with their pros and cons. Most of the non-survey instruments described in this paper can generate both quantitative and qualitative data and have many uses including the evaluation of a development programme. Like our survey questionnaires, we can also pretest our non-survey instruments extensively with people who are alike to respondents in our study, so that the logistic work could be easy to conduct and understandable by the researchers.

scholarly journals Female Entrepreneurship: from Women’s Empowerment to Shared Value Creation

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Zoeller Véras
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Shared Value ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Female Entrepreneurship ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Strategies

This paper is an investigation on female entrepreneurship, women’s enterprise development and the opportunities to create shared value. Enterprise development can make a significant contribution to women’s empowerment and gender equality and has a key role in gender strategies. Thus, understanding these topics together has become important. Nevertheless, there is a lack of research regarding the combination of the concepts. The framework arose due the fact that, although women are making relevant advancements in entrepreneurship, yet, if compared to men, they lack access to finance, training, and rights, besides differing in terms of economic opportunities. To tackle this disparity, WEConnect International is promoting equal access and opportunity for them to compete. Large organizations tend to engage with a limited pool of vendors, which excludes qualified women-owned businesses and others, therefore missing out on cost savings and profit, and possibly on some important innovations. The initiative aims to locate women-owned businesses, certify them and introduce them to business opportunities. Going further on studies about women’s enterprise is necessary because of the rising of women in the economic scenario, as their businesses are having a growing impact on the economy and society.

Into the Civic life: The Nexus of Urbanization, Education and Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-222
Author(s):  
Muhammad Abdullah ◽  
Ayza Shoukat ◽  
Muhammad Gulzaib Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Unit Root ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Unit Root Test ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Depth Analysis

Women comprise nearly 50 percent of the population of Pakistan which is enriched with a variety of regional, cultural, and ethnic values.  These values are traditionally responsible for limiting opportunities for women and keeping them less empowered. This study examines the link between education and urbanization that is empowering women in Pakistan. Time series data for the period of 1980 to 2019 has been used for empirical analysis. The stationarity of data has been checked by using the ADF unit root test. All the variables used in the study have a unit root at the level and become stationary at first difference. Johansen's co-integration technique is utilized to check the long-run relationship between the variables used in the study. Instead of using any single variable, we have constructed the Women Empowerment Index (WEI) by using multiple women-related indicators for in-depth analysis. Empirical findings indicate that women's empowerment is positively associated with education and urbanization in Pakistan. Other controlled variables include domestic credit with a positive association and inflation with a negative association. The study shows that empowering women is sensitive to urbanization and education. There must be women-specific educational and training institutions across the country with a special focus on rural areas for equal availability of opportunities for women of all cultures. Urbanization provides greater social, economic and political opportunities for women. Same opportunities should be provided for women in rural areas to make them more empowered. Moreover, control of inflation and the provision of credit on easy terms will also help to enhance women's contribution to economic activity in Pakistan.

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