Contextualizing women’s empowerment frameworks with an emphasis on social support: a study in rural, South India

Coley, Christopher; Sheshadri, Srividya; Devanathan, Sriram; Bhavani, Rao R.

doi:10.1080/13668803.2021.1879021

Cited by 9 publications

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“…The last dimension was interventions in women's empowerment, concerning social support resources and available opportunities for growth and learning. Consistent with this finding, it was shown that there is a strong correlation between perceived family support and empowerment indicators, especially between life control and self-confidence (Coley, Sheshadri et al, 2021). According to the interviewees, women's access to social and family support resources (especially parental support) could protect against domestic violence.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…Another explanation for women not disclosing violent acts or seeking assistance is caring about other people's opinions and worries about societal stigma (Madhani et al, 2017). As a result, modifying gender stereotypes and attitudes is essential to preventing women from becoming victims (Coley, Sheshadri et al, 2021;Semahegn et al, 2019). Another problem that was brought up was women's perceptions of violence towards them as being usual in marital relationships.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Identifying the Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment to Coping Effectively with Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Study in Iran

Amirroud¹,

Ramezankhani²,

Ghaffari³

et al. 2022

JPSS

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Empowerment is a key goal in anti-violence programs against women, which can help women control, prevent, and cope effectively with domestic violence. However, there are no specific guidelines for women's empowerment interventions in this area. This study aimed to explore the dimensions of women's empowerment to cope effectively with domestic violence in a sample of women and related experts. In this qualitative content analysis, data was gathered via 21 individual semi-constructed interviews and two five-person focus group discussions. Thirty-one participants were selected by the purposive sampling approach. Fifteen subcategories were extracted after the data analysis, which included multiple revisions and the merging of 892 primary codes based on similarity, which led to the extraction of 15 subcategories. Then, five main categories were identified as dimensions of women’s empowerment to cope effectively with domestic violence: marital life skills, cognitive self-appraisal, attitude, economic agency, and access to resources. Participants cited marital life skills and attitude as essential dimensions of women's empowerment. These results provide a comprehensive view of the dimensions of women’s empowerment to cope effectively with domestic violence in Iran that can be used as a basis for planning empowerment interventions to promote women’s health against violence.

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confidence: 62%

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confidence: 99%

Identifying the Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment to Coping Effectively with Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Study in Iran

Amirroud¹,

Ramezankhani²,

Ghaffari³

et al. 2022

JPSS

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“…Many women were reluctant to downsize staff, provided psychological support to their team, and reached out to society to help. Such behaviors have already been identified by authors such as Coley et al (2021), suggesting that women entrepreneurs have further societal responsibility than men counterparts.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…The third component of WEE relates to access to finances or equity capital for startups. Women entrepreneurs generally rely on internal funding sources such as support from friends, family, and relatives (Wu et al, 2019); however, the Indian sociocultural context embedded in traditional norms makes this quite challenging, especially in gaining support from men in their families (Coley et al, 2021). Equal rights to property and assets are often ignored, impeding women to present credit history or collaterals to formal banking institutions and forcing about 79% of women entrepreneurs to opt for self-funding Roadmap for women's economic empowerment options (Korreck, 2019).…”

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“…Offering gender-responsive innovation to meet neglected needs (Gayatri and Udhayakumar, 2018), women entrepreneurs affirm their presence in specific sectors (health, hygiene, clean energy, zero waste, education, textiles and fashion, cosmetics, food, and nutrition). There is also evidence of so-called “empowerment spillover”, where women entrepreneurs are more likely to exhibit social responsibility and are inclined to promote, support, and mentor other women entrepreneurs (Coley et al , 2021). They stand as role models against the archetypal male representation of an entrepreneur.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A priority action roadmap for women's economic empowerment (PARWEE) amid COVID-19: a co-creation approach

Bonin

Singh

Suresh

et al. 2021

IJGE

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Purpose The study aims to co-create a “priority action roadmap for women's economic empowerment” based on women's top priorities to charting recovery directions. Doing so contributes to the growing body of knowledge on COVID-19 literature in at least four areas: assessing COVID-19 impacts on women entrepreneurs; mapping these impacts with four interdependent women's entrepreneurial ecosystem components; innovating a co-creation methodology based on remote participatory research; and providing a replicable model to perform action-oriented research in the context of COVID-19 impacts. Design/methodology/approach A co-creation methodology is proposed, combining systems-thinking and remote participatory research to engage women entrepreneurs and institutional stakeholders to prioritize impact, response actions and recovery needs in the wake of COVID-19. A ranking exercise using the analytic hierarchy process was used to derive ranking and assess user inputs' consistency. Findings The study exemplifies the integration of participatory methods and mathematical tool to engage stakeholders in prioritizing recovery work. PARWEE action items ranked by entrepreneurs and vetted by institutional stakeholders cover: access to finances, capacity building, health care, public and private partnership, marketing opportunities and formation of active advocacy groups to voice out women entrepreneurs' needs to institutional stakeholders. Results show a slight difference in the ranking of priority actions between experience owners and fresh starters. Originality/value This study innovated a new co-creation methodology for remotely engaging stakeholders of the women's entrepreneurial ecosystem, which is grounded in evidence and provides a replicable model for performing action-oriented research.

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ICT significance for Community Engagement during COVID in Rural India: An application suite

Padmavilochanan,

Natarajan,

Shekhar

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)

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Contextualizing women’s empowerment frameworks with an emphasis on social support: a study in rural, South India

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Identifying the Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment to Coping Effectively with Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Study in Iran

Identifying the Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment to Coping Effectively with Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Study in Iran

A priority action roadmap for women's economic empowerment (PARWEE) amid COVID-19: a co-creation approach

ICT significance for Community Engagement during COVID in Rural India: An application suite

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