Time Use Pattern of Rural Women of Assam and Their Contribution towards Economy: A Case Study on Majuli District of Assam

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Use Pattern

Rethinking the Agency of Women in the Shea Industry

Politeia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abiba Yayah
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Good Source ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Home Based

The agency of women in most African countries is often affected by the socio-economic and political policies that are almost always disadvantageous to women, especially women who have little to no knowledge of their rights. Using the shea industry in Ghana as a case study, I chronicle the challenges as recounted by rural women involved in this home-based work in the Northern Region of Ghana and critically analyse these challenges and their implications. Focusing mainly on the results of my recent field work, I present some of the accounts relating to the lack and exclusion of recognition of and respect for the experiences of rural women who are in fact the linchpin of the shea industry in Ghana. Initiatives and strategies of non-governmental organisations and some governmental policies have attempted to address these challenges that have implications for the livelihoods of rural women. Research and policies have only offered “band-aid solutions” to the economic disempowerment of rural women in the shea industry in Ghana as they have not dealt with the causes. This article seeks to refute the claim that equity exists by indicating the lack of equity and justice in the policies in the shea industry. In an attempt to provide an understanding of the economic disempowerment of women in this industry, I consider my field work as a good source as it exposes the experiences and everyday practices as narrated by rural women in the industry. This article seeks to analyse the existing discourses especially those pertaining to the contributions and experiences of rural women in the shea industry.

RURAL WOMEN AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A CASE STUDY IN HERAKLION CRETE PREFECTURE, GREECE

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 269-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
AIKATERINI LASSITHIOTAKI
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Enterprise Risk ◽  
Enterprise Model ◽  
Control Production ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Domestic Roles ◽  
Entrepreneurial Beliefs

This article investigates the entrepreneurial beliefs/attitudes, ambitions, expectations, goals and visions of rural women who choose to cooperate and found Women's Rural cooperatives in the Prefecture of Heraklion on the island of Crete. The results of a qualitative study involving a sample of eight chairwomen of rural women's established Traditional Food Production cooperatives indicated that the traditional domestic roles (housewife, mother), the low level of education, the lack of professional skills, enterprise experience and mostly the unwillingness of rural women to undertake enterprise risk, have turned them toward an enterprise model that lacks modern business methods in the use of quality control production systems, in the production of Protected Geographical Identification Goods and/or Certified Local Traditional Food and/or Organic Products, in the use of new organizing and managing technologies, in advertising and promoting products and in administrative renewal.

Empowerment and autonomy in rural women: case study of the municipality of Chivatá, Boyacá, Colombia

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
Zulma Andrea Cantor Hernández ◽  
Javier Augusto López Cifuentes ◽  
Fabio Blanco Mesa
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women

scholarly journals Economic Empowerment of Rural Women: Case Study of Microfinance Institution (MFIs) in Tangerang, Indonesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukhaer Pakkanna ◽  
Lincolin Arsyad ◽  
Agustinus Suryantoro
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Microfinance Institution
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