Self-employment of women: an opportunity or the last resort?

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Dagmara Nikulin
Keyword(s):  
Self Employment ◽  
Employment Of Women

scholarly journals The Self-employment of Women in Azerbaijan

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-190
Author(s):  
Krystyna Gomółka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The Self ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Employment Of Women ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Secular State

Azerbaijan has a population of more than 10 million, of which women accounted for 50% in 2020. At the same time, 93% of Azerbaijan’s citizens describe themselves as Muslims. Since the beginning of independence, Azerbaijan has been a secular state by virtue of Article 48 of the Constitution, which guarantees the freedom of worship, choice, or nonpractice of religion and the freedom of expression of one’s own views on religion. This article aims to assess the changes in the self-employment of women in Azerbaijan through a deductive analysis of data and observation of changes in the structure of resources based on generally available macroeconomic data. This study focuses on the situation of women on the Azerbaijani labour market over the two decades of the 21st century. The numbers of economically active women, including those in employment and the unemployed, and economically inactive women are specified. Further, the government’s legal and financial policy in respect of women’s self-employment is analysed. The author determines what percentage of companies were set up by women and in which sectors and locations.

scholarly journals Poverty Reduction Through Self Employment of Women : A Study on Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha (TMSS)

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAJ Siddique ◽  
MM Salehin ◽  
JU Ahmed ◽  
AHMS Islam
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
National Level ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Employed Women ◽  
Head Count ◽  
Employment Of Women ◽  
Essential Contribution ◽  
The Impact

The study was designed to present the issues of self-employed women of Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha (TMSS) in Shajahanpur Upazila of Bogra district considering their participation in different programmes of TMSS for poverty alleviation. The impact of the study was assessed in terms of economic and social gains accrued by the women’s and their family activities. Data were collected randomly from four villages under Shajahanpur Upazila of Bogra district. Sixty members from ten societies consisted of 292 members were selected randomly. The test of mean difference, head count ratio, poverty gap were used towards poverty alleviation. The study revealed that per household annual average income was positively changed. The expenditure and saving pattern indicated a shift of positive attitude towards life and improvement in the standard of living due to womens’ contribution. The poverty situations also improved as compared with that of the national level. This small effort is an addition to the knowledge about the essential contribution of the self employed women in different programmes to their role and status in the society which helps to reduce poverty. Finally, some recommendations were also made by the study.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/pa.v19i1.17366 Progress. Agric. 19(1): 155 - 168, 2008 

scholarly journals Self-employment of women through associations in the rural areas of Sirinicka Zupa

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-263
Author(s):  
Goran Maksimović ◽  
Tatjana Ivanović ◽  
Aleksandra Vujko
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Employment Of Women

scholarly journals Economic Practices of a Rural Lifestyle in Russia and Colombia: A Sociological Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
Mikhail Krasnov ◽  
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Natalia Skobelina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Lifestyle Practices ◽  
High Employment ◽  
Employment Of Women

The article analyzes the lifestyle activities of the rural population of Russia and Colombia in the economic sphere. The possibility of comparing data for both countries, provided by similar methods of statistical observations adopted by the statistical agencies of both countries, and the unified principles of organizing a sociological study conducted by the authors, is shown. The features of rural economic and economic practices identified through indicators of the labor market and employment are revealed. In Russia, these are the dominance of wage employment to the detriment of entrepreneurship, the high proportion of informal self-employment, in which agricultural activity predominates (with its systemic reduction in the official labor market), the growth of pendulum labor migration to cities. In Colombia, there are a steady dominance of agricultural activity in the field of rural employment, a high proportion of laborers and small non-agricultural businesses, usually informal, high employment of women in the household, and an increase in permanent labor migration to cities. It has been established that the main motivational factors of rural lifestyle practices are determined by living conditions and are the same in Russia and Colombia; are objective and rational. These include, first of all, the location of the village: proximity to the city everywhere promotes a plurality of labor strategies; changes in welfare and employment structure: abandonment of agricultural activities, job loss, low incomes stimulate self-employment, entrepreneurial activity and labor migration (pendulum and permanent) to cities. Rational, objectively conditioned motives lead to the emergence of essentially identical lifestyle practices, which may differ in forms and frequency of manifestation, reflecting national specificity. It is shown that a change in the external socio-economic environment causes a similar rational socio-behavioral reaction in rural society, regardless of national characteristics.

Self Employment of Women

Social Change ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neetha N.
Keyword(s):  
Self Employment ◽  
Employment Of Women

Turkish Muslims in a German city: Entrepreneurial and residential self-determination

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sarah Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
German City ◽  
Post War ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Term Objective

Drawing upon a collection of oral history interviews, this paper offers an insight into entrepreneurial and residential patterns and behaviour amongst Turkish Muslims in the German city of Bremen. The academic literature has traditionally argued that Turkish migrants in Germany have been pushed into self-employment, low-quality housing and segregated neighbourhoods as a result of discrimination, and poor employment and housing opportunities. Yet the interviews reveal the extent to which Bremen’s Turkish Muslims’ performances and experiences have overwhelmingly been the consequences of personal choices and ambitions. For many of the city’s Turkish Muslim entrepreneurs, self-employment had been a long-term objective, and they have succeeded in establishing and running their businesses in the manner they choose with regards to location and clientele, for example. Similarly, interviewees stressed the way in which they were able to shape their housing experiences by opting which districts of the city to live in and by purchasing property. On the whole, they perceive their entrepreneurial and residential practices as both consequences and mediums of success, integration and a loyalty to the city of Bremen. The findings are contextualised within the wider debate regarding the long-term legacy of Germany’s post-war guest-worker system and its position as a “country of immigration”.

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