scholarly journals Innovations in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Partner Organization ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Transnational Actors ◽  
Promote Gender Equality ◽  
The Impact

Many studies have highlighted benefits of international volunteering, particularly the positive impacts for the volunteers themselves. Adding to this scholarship, the papers in the collection fill an important gap in our understanding of the impact of international development volunteering from the perspective of partner organization staff who work collaboratively with international development volunteers to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. The collection provides insights into negotiated spaces and mutual learning as well as the unique role international development volunteers play as transnational actors by working closely with staff in development organizations. With contributions by Tiffany Laursen, Benjamin Lough, Tabitha Mirza, Rika Mpogazi, Lan Nguyen, Nnenna Okoli, Leva Rouhani, Khursheed Sadat, Somed Shahadu Bitamsimli, Pascale Saint-Denis und Rebecca Tiessen.

Overlooked consequences could harm women's rights

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
High Positive Correlation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Promote Gender Equality

Subject Assessment of women's empowerment policies. Significance A new study from Colombia published in March showed a high positive correlation between indicators of women's empowerment and rates of domestic violence. Development organisations are also increasingly acknowledging that their projects aimed at promoting gender equality have unintended negative effects on women, raising questions about how best to design development interventions that promote gender equality. Impacts Ignoring the negative consequences of empowerment programmes for women could reduce funding in the long term. These negative consequences could also create a backlash against women's empowerment among women themselves. Without also addressing men's attitudes, women's empowerment programmes will be hobbled.

scholarly journals Do Women’s Advancement and Gender Parity Promote Economic Growth? Evidence from 30 Asian Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-26
Author(s):  
P. K. Mishra ◽  
S. K. Mishra ◽  
M. K. Sarangi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Gender Parity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Women’s advancement and consequential gender equality have significant implications for human capital formation, increase in labour productivity, employment creation, poverty reduction, and overall socio-economic and human development. So, inclusive growth and sustainable development would not be possible without women’s empowerment and gender equality. Thus, targeting women’s empowerment is extensively relevant for Asian countries. In this context, this article explored the impact of the gender factors on the economic growth of 30 Asian economies over the period from 1997 to 2015 by using panel autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) model. It provides the evidence of an overall positive impact of the gender parity index of health, education, employment and democratic representation on the economic growth of Asia in the long run. Therefore, gender equality is an important determinant of economic growth in Asian countries, and hence, should be on board while planning for the empowerment of women.

scholarly journals Talent Management and The Journey Towards Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment In South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Esin Yurdagul
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Talent Management ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
The Impact

Lack of gender equality affects talent management. The journey towards gender equality can be achieved through diversity, inclusion, and empowerment which is a continuous process, according to the International Labour Organization. This paper examines the importance and significance of achieving gender equality in South Korea through diversity, inclusion, and empowerment in public as well as private sector organisations which are shaped by a strict form of Confucianism. The impact of this on talent management in the country is then assessed.

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.

‘Micro-programmes’ fail to empower women

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Entrepreneurial Training ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Impact

Subject Evaluation of women's empowerment programmes. Significance New research is contesting the impact and relevance of 'women’s empowerment' programming in international development. The term ‘empowerment’ was first advanced by feminists from the Global South in the 1970s, but aid organisations placed it under a broad umbrella of initiatives that have failed to advance women’s socio-political status. Often focusing on ‘micro-programmes’, such as microfinance and gendered entrepreneurial training, women’s empowerment initiatives have in fact limited women’s participation in public life, increased their domestic labour and reinforced gender inequality. Impacts Focusing ‘empowerment’ training on the domestic sphere or micro-enterprises will do little to elevate women’s status. Greater economic power for women without changes in men’s attitudes can lead to more domestic violence. Perpetuating the image of women as victims reinforces their depoliticisation by the state.

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.

Women’s Education May Be Even Better Than We Thought: Estimating the Gains from Education When Schooling Ain’t Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Kaffenberger ◽  
Lant Pritchett
Keyword(s):  
Child Mortality ◽  
Women's Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Practices ◽  
Attenuation Bias

Women’s schooling has long been regarded as one of the best investments in development. Using two different cross-nationally comparable data sets which both contain measures of schooling, assessments of literacy, and life outcomes for more than 50 countries, we show the association of women’s education (defined as schooling and the acquisition of literacy) with four life outcomes (fertility, child mortality, empowerment, and financial practices) is much larger than the standard estimates of the gains from schooling alone. First, estimates of the association of outcomes with schooling alone cannot distinguish between the association of outcomes with schooling that actually produces increased learning and schooling that does not. Second, typical estimates do not address attenuation bias from measurement error. Using the new data on literacy to partially address these deficiencies, we find that the associations of women’s basic education (completing primary schooling and attaining literacy) with child mortality, fertility, women’s empowerment and the associations of men’s and women’s basic education with positive financial practices are three to five times larger than standard estimates. For instance, our country aggregated OLS estimate of the association of women’s empowerment with primary schooling versus no schooling is 0.15 of a standard deviation of the index, but the estimated association for women with primary schooling and literacy, using IV to correct for attenuation bias, is 0.68, 4.6 times bigger. Our findings raise two conceptual points. First, if the causal pathway through which schooling affects life outcomes is, even partially, through learning then estimates of the impact of schooling will underestimate the impact of education. Second, decisions about how to invest to improve life outcomes necessarily depend on estimates of the relative impacts and relative costs of schooling (e.g., grade completion) versus learning (e.g., literacy) on life outcomes. Our results do share the limitation of all previous observational results that the associations cannot be given causal interpretation and much more work will be needed to be able to make reliable claims about causal pathways.

scholarly journals Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh: a randomised control trial protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. e044263
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K Kirkwood ◽  
Michael John Dibley ◽  
John Frederick Hoddinott ◽  
Tanvir Huda ◽  
Tracey Lea Laba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Randomised Control Trial ◽  
Call Centre ◽  
Rural Bangladesh ◽  
Nutrition Counselling ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Unconditional Cash Transfer

IntroductionThere is growing interest in assessing the impact of health interventions, particularly when women are the focus of the intervention, on women’s empowerment. Globally, research has shown that interventions targeting nutrition, health and economic development can affect women’s empowerment. Evidence suggests that women’s empowerment is also an underlying determinant of nutrition outcomes. Depending on the focus of the intervention, different domains of women’s empowerment will be influenced, for example, an increase in nutritional knowledge, or greater control over income and access to resources.ObjectiveThis study evaluates the impact of the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling (SCC) Trial that combines nutrition counselling and an unconditional cash transfer, delivered on a mobile platform, on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh.Methods and analysisWe will use a mixed-methods approach, combining statistical analysis of quantitative data from 2840 women in a cluster randomised controlled trial examining the impact of nutrition behaviour change communications (BCCs) and cash transfers on child undernutrition. Pregnant participants will be given a smartphone with a customised app, delivering nutrition BCC messages, and will receive nutrition counselling via a call centre and an unconditional cash transfer. This study is a component of the SCC Trial and will measure women’s empowerment using a composite indicator based on the Project-Level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, with quantitative data collection at baseline and endline. Thematic analysis of qualitative data, collected through longitudinal interviews with women, husbands and mothers-in-law, will elicit a local understanding of women’s empowerment and the linkages between the intervention and women’s empowerment outcomes. This paper describes the study protocol to evaluate women’s empowerment in a nutrition-specific and sensitive intervention using internationally validated, innovative tools and will help fill the evidence gap on pathways of impact, highlighting areas to target for future programming.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval has been obtained from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (Ref. PR 17106) and The University of Sydney (Ref: 2019/840). Findings from this study will be shared in Bangladesh with dissemination sessions in-country and internationally at conferences, and will be published in peer-reviewed journals.

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