The Greek Crisis and the Gender Gap: Reinforcing Connections between Education and Women’s Empowerment

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Nikolakaki
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Greek Crisis

scholarly journals Inequalities in women’s empowerment and prevalence of HIV in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 3069
Author(s):  
Shri Kant Singh ◽  
Deepanjali Vishwakarma ◽  
Bhawana Sharma ◽  
Santosh Kumar Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Hiv Infections ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Hiv Prevalence ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Spousal Violence ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Hiv Aids

Background: Over the years, there has been growing evidence of continuous narrowing gender gap in new HIV infections, despite stagnation in overall HIV prevalence in India. Among others, one of the reasons behind the exiting pattern in HIV/AIDS in the country is the poor status of women, lack of control over their sexuality and poor reproductive and sexual rights.Methods: This paper analyses the troika of women’s empowerment, spousal-violence, and HIV prevalence in India using data from two rounds (2005-2006 and 2015-2016) of Indian DHS having a community-based HIV testing.Results: Results corroborate the recent spurts in women’s empowerment in India, which cuts across socio-economic groups. It has positively influenced a decline in spousal-violence even in the lowest socio-economic strata despite significant inequality across states. HIV prevalence among women has not been changed over the last decade (0.22% to 0.23%) despite decreased adult HIV prevalence. Women having control over their sexuality is significantly less likely to have HIV infection. Relationship between marital control behavior of husband and HIV prevalence, which was significant in 2005-06 (OR=1.2, p<0.10), has emerged to be insignificant in 2015-16. This means that increasing women's empowerment has altered their HIV prevalence through increasing sexual-rights and reducing the intensity of marital control behavior.Conclusions: A combative relationship has been established between women’s empowerment and their risk of HIV/AIDS. The results have been consistently showing the variations of inequality in women’s empowerment across different states, consequently affecting the risk of HIV/AIDS. Ensuring sexual-rights of women should be the best strategy.

Is M-PESA a Model for Financial Inclusion and Women Empowerment in Kenya?

2015 ◽  
pp. 101-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violet N. Barasa ◽  
Charles Lugo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Mobile Banking ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Impact

Since the 1980s, the gender gap in most countries—rich and developing—has been narrowing. Women and girls are going to school more, living longer, getting better jobs, and acquiring legal rights and protections. Despite these strides, women in poor rural communities remain financially excluded from formal financial services. This chapter explores the impact of mobile banking on financial inclusion and women's empowerment in Kenya. The aim is to evaluate whether mobile banking is a form of financial inclusion and women's financial empowerment in Kenya. Firstly, it gives a clear background of a form of mobile banking in Kenya locally called M-PESA. Secondly, it evaluates how M-PESA is a form financial inclusion. Thirdly, it examines if M-PESA is a form of financial empowerment for women and girls in Kenya and lastly, offers recommendations on how M-PESA can effectively become a mode of financial inclusion and women's empowerment in Kenya.

Waiting or Acting? The Gender Gap in International Football Success

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022110607
Author(s):  
Ignacio Lago ◽  
Santiago Lago-Peñas ◽  
Carlos Lago-Peñas
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
General Question ◽  
Positive Externalities ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Women's Football

The conditions under which women's national football teams do better or worse in international tournaments remains an open question. Using data from 116 countries worldwide, we have examined three arguments accounting for the gender gap in international football success, focusing on positive externalities from economic development and women's empowerment, and the active policies promoting women's football. Our findings show that the international performance of women's national football teams compared to men's national football teams increases with women's empowerment and in countries committed to the promotion of women's football, while economic development is not relevant. The general question we address is whether gender gaps disappear because of economic and social development, or if active policies promoting women are required to achieve gender equality.

scholarly journals Islamic Finance and Empowerment of Women: A Case Study of Pakistan

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Shah Nawaz Shaikh ◽  
Azam Ali
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Islamic Financial Institutions ◽  
The Impact

United Nation set seventeen Sustainable Development Goals for all its member countries to achieve them by 2030. Pakistan is also a member of UN and is required to achieve these SDGs by 2030. Literature on SDGs pointed out that Pakistan is working on these goals especially on 05 basic goals i.e. Education, Health, Poverty, clean water &sanitary and Gender equality. One of the SDGs addresses the Gender Equality with focus on women empowerment. There found some hurdles i.e. environment, financial and religious in achieving these and other goals. Islamic financial institutions are not playing expected role in empowering people especially females to achieve these goals. This study discusses the gender gap in accordance with Sharia and analyzes the women empowerment through Islamic Finance. For this, the study provides brief discussion on Islamic thoughts on the gender gap and Women’s empowerment and examines how women can be empowered through Islamic Financial Institutions. The data for the study is qualitative in natures and acquired through survey questionnaire. The research question set for the study is ‘By how IFIs fulfill the needs in terms of equal opportunities for women, and to analyze the impact of IFIs environment on women’s empowerment, if a country establishes an IFI in its territory either for students, bank’s employees, religious women who are engaged in Madrasas or households. The findings of the analysis interpret that, women empowerment leads gender equality if regulator help IFIs to mitigate the problems and hurdles come under way. The establishment of separate IFI for women with the development of specific rules for betterment of women may help women to get jobs that also comprise the female Sharia scholars in Sharia board, consequently increased the numbers of women in banking industry.

scholarly journals Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 358-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Doepke ◽  
Michèle Tertilt
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Household Bargaining ◽  
Ideal Family Size ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Fertility Choices

We document evidence on preferences for childbearing in developing countries. Across countries, men usually desire larger families than women do. Within countries, we find wide dispersion in spouses' desired fertility: there are many couples whose ideal family size differs by five children or more. This disagreement between spouses suggests that the extent to which women are empowered should matter for fertility choices. We point to evidence at both the macro and micro levels that this is indeed the case. We conclude that taking account of household bargaining and women's empowerment in analyses of fertility is an important challenge for research.

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Through Microfinance - A Case of Rural Bangladesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Saida Parvin
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Donor Agencies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

Women’s empowerment has been at the centre of research focus for many decades. Extant literature examined the process, outcome and various challenges. Some claimed substantial success, while others contradicted with evidence of failure. But the success remains a matter of debate due to lack of empirical evidence of actual empowerment of women around the world. The current study aimed to address this gap by taking a case study method. The study critically evaluates 20 cases carefully sampled to include representatives from the entire country of Bangladesh. The study demonstrates popular beliefs about microfinance often misguide even the borrowers and they start living in a fabricated feeling of empowerment, facing real challenges to achieve true empowerment in their lives. The impact of this finding is twofold; firstly there is a theoretical contribution, where the definition of women’s empowerment is proposed to be revisited considering findings from these cases. And lastly, the policy makers at governmental and non-governmental organisations, and multinational donor agencies need to revise their assessment tools for funding.

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