“Commenting on the Causal Factors Controlling
Female Decision Making”
A study of Female Decision Making Regarding
Paid Employment: Punjab, Pakistan

Shahnaz, Lubna; Kizilbash, Zainab

doi:10.35536/lje.2002.v7.i1.a4

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“…The term "mazbootaurat" or "strong woman" when explored among this Pakistani community, appeared to be employed as a synonym for an educated woman. The higher the level of education, the stronger negotiator ("mazbootaurat") she is, and makes a better-informed decision about her children"s health, family health, children education and household purchases, a finding previously reported (Jejeebhoy & Sathar, 2001;Acharya et al, 2010;Fatima, 2014;Mumtaz & Salway, 2007;Shahnaz & Kizilbash, 2012).Education not only bestowed them with information and knowledge, but also made them a good communicator. Through this quality, women were able to disperse their thoughts and views, across their family system.…”

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Describing Determinants of Negotiation and Bargaining to Access and Utilize Resources including Health among Immigrant Pakistani Women in the United States

Shahid¹

2018

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Objective of this study was to explore the domestic negotiation process around Pakistani homes in Houston. We explored the gendered differences in negotiations and various bargaining strategies employed by Pakistani immigrant women in order to utilize or access various resources including modern healthcare. Methods: Qualitative research methods were utilized. Nineteen in-depth interviews were conducted with participants, between ages of 25 to 39 years, married, residing in United States for less than 10 years, in addition to five key informant interviews with senior community women, between January to August 2016. Data was analyzed using narrative and thematic content analysis. Results: Paper presents the determinants of Pakistani immigrant women bargaining power and how women and men manage and negotiate couple, family, and intergenerational dynamics around healthcare as well as other needs. It revealed how Pakistani women mange to fulfill their needs, take care of their health, and what strategies they use to access resources. Conclusion:We observed that women"s education and employment, have significant positive effect on wife"s negotiation and decision-making power followed by two other chief determinants that act as a catalyst in wife"s bargaining power and autonomy namely, strong natal family and wife sponsored permanent residency.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Describing Determinants of Negotiation and Bargaining to Access and Utilize Resources including Health among Immigrant Pakistani Women in the United States

Shahid¹

2018

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“…Women's decision making power negatively affects child labor in a society by improving the human capital of the future generation. Influential mothers are oriented towards the education of their children and they are less likely to send their kids in the labor market (see, e.g., Shahnaz and Kizilbash 2002;Drèze and Murthi 2001;Behrman et al 1999). Thus, the functional form of the model to capture the influence of women's decision making power on child labor is specified as follows.…”

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“…Some studies mainly focus on the relationship between empowered mother and child's welfare because mothers play an important role in their children's well-being when they exercise some level of influence in the process of decision making of the household (Shahnaz and Kizilbash 2002;Khan and Raza 2014;Impicciatore and Dalla Zuanna 2017).…”

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Women’s decision making power and child labor: evidence from Pakistan

Majeed

Kiran

2019

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The quality of life of a child depends on the decision of parents about the allocation choices of their child's time between education and work. In particular, the mother of a child can play a significant role in enhancing the quality of life of her kids given that she has the right of participation in decision making in family life. This research is based on the belief that child labor is detrimental to human capital accumulation and women's decision-making power plays an important role in economic development by enhancing human capital of the future generation. This study contributes to the literature by addressing the question: How women take part in the decision making process and how women's decisions influence their children. Women's decision making power is gauged by using a set of different measures from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2013-2014, which inquires directly who in the household makes decisions on some key matters, such as women's education and employment, uptake of fertility regulating methods, the number of children and purchase of household consumption items. Our study uses logistic regression technique to empirically test the relationship between women's decision making power and child labor. The findings of study suggest that empowering women by increasing their ability to make decisions on some key issues of the family matters decreases the probability of child labor in Pakistan. Among all the measures of women's decision making power, the participation of women in decisions of family size has a larger effect on child labor. Moreover, gender heterogeneity in the reduction of child labor also exists as women's decision making power leaves different impacts on boys and girls. The results are statistically significant across various specifications. Hence, empowering women through the decision-making process of the family life can help to reduce child labor in the society.

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“…Education can help women to gain confidence, motivation and pave the way to uplift their status and become better citizens in contributing to the growth and development of the country. In this respect, studies like Shahnaz and Kizilbash (2002), Zafar et al (2005), Fatima (2013, and Samari and Pebley (2015) concluded that education is one of the significant determinants of women empowerment.…”

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Socioeconomic Determinants of Women’s Empowerment: A Case of Farm Households in Abeokuta, Ogun State

Adekunle¹,

Kutu²,

Alori³

2021

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This study examines the socioeconomic determinants of women’s empowerment or bargaining power among married couples living in farm households in Nigeria. A multistage random sampling technique is employed to collect cross-sectional data from 320 farm households aged between 15 to 50 years. Women’s empowerment or bargaining power is measured using 18 questions, and a Tobit regression model is used to analyze all the variables employed. According to the findings, husbands have five more years of formal education than wives and literacy rates are higher for men (62%) than for women (30%). This differenceleads to more decision-making power for men. The result shows that there is a visible gender disparity in the worth and value of assets brought into the marriage, with the men bringing around 34% while that of the women is around 3% making men the main decision-makers and women less empowered. As a policy recommendation, women’s status in society should be enhanced through investment in education and well-being. Additionally, policies and programs aimed at leveraging the bargaining power of the woman in her attempts to make decisions in the household and increasing her empowerment should be formulated and implemented by policymakers.

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“Commenting on the Causal Factors Controlling Female Decision Making” A study of Female Decision Making Regarding Paid Employment: Punjab, Pakistan

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Describing Determinants of Negotiation and Bargaining to Access and Utilize Resources including Health among Immigrant Pakistani Women in the United States

Describing Determinants of Negotiation and Bargaining to Access and Utilize Resources including Health among Immigrant Pakistani Women in the United States

Women’s decision making power and child labor: evidence from Pakistan

Socioeconomic Determinants of Women’s Empowerment: A Case of Farm Households in Abeokuta, Ogun State

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