Masculinity, men and patriarchal issues aside: How do women’s actions impede women’s access to land? Matters arising from a peri-rural community in Nigeria

Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

“…It is logical to assume that efforts made towards improving women's land tenure problemsspecifically, their land access and tenure security challenges-usually lead to women's empowerment in general. However, in-depth studies done on women have shown that high-income and middle-income (or more privileged) women benefit more from these efforts, compared with the generality of women who are usually poor, vulnerable, and disempowered [8,10,46,[74][75][76][77]. This is why this study calls for understanding broad-based women-differentiated patterns of land tenure in the efforts being made at tackling women's land access and tenure security challenges by focusing on the variations that exist in women's situations.…”

“…Depriving women of what men readily have access to (like land) is a form of impoverishment of women and a kind of negative recognition of women [48]. The "inferiorisation of women" in the "cultural space" in which land tenure operates in SSA is a dehumanisation (or negative recognition) of women [10]; [16], p. 340. Recognition of differentiations in women can lead to the understanding that there are different kinds of women.…”

“…A study of women's land rights vulnerability in Zimbabwe concluded that the role of patriarchy was sometimes overemphasised in studies of women's land rights vulnerability in the developing world [9]. Another study on Nigeria showed that the land challenges women face are sometimes as a result of "actions and inactions" of women [10]. These studies illustrate why patriarchy is only one of several institutions governing resource access along with governance structures and institutions that draw power from a variety of sources, including the government, the dominant political party, traditional authorities, and formal legislation.…”

Visually Hypothesising in Scientific Paper Writing: Confirming and Refuting Qualitative Research Hypotheses Using Diagrams

“…The study agrees "that one only rarely encounters explicit (post)positivist principles, but we can ascertain the existence of a hidden frame of reference and an implicit epistemological position" [35] (p. 5). For instance, positivist and post-positivist paradigms commonly agree that the purpose of research (whether qualitative or quantitative in approach) include the testing of theories, prediction of outcomes, and determination of relationships between events, or variables or causes and effects [78][79][80][81][82][83][84], as shown in various research studies with mixed approaches [85][86][87][88][89]. The post-positivist perspective of this study has distinguished itself from positivist studies through its implied views that the quantification (particularly through the use of sophisticated statistical methods and mathematical models) do not necessarily "enable the attainment of scientifically relevant insights" [35] (p. 6).…”

Nurses’ and midwives’ perspectives on participation in national policy development, review and reforms in Ghana: A qualitative study

“…Evidence shows that various power dynamics within the health sector hinder the participation of nurses in policy development [6]. Patriarchy is a power dynamic which operates with the principle of male dominance which relegates women directly or indirectly into the background [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. In the African patriarchal context where women are mostly disadvantaged [14][15][16][17], the gender role of women in society may have an impact on the way nurses, majority of whom are women, are involved in policy development.…”