Profiling gendered multidimensional poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa

Omotoso, Kehinde Oluwaseun; Adésínà, Jìmí O.; Adewole, Ololade Grace

doi:10.1080/20421338.2020.1867363

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“…Increased income helps women to have access to an improved standard of living and come out of deprivation. However, the study's outcome reveals that about 78% of women are deprived of employment, supporting the studies made by Bhattacharjee and Goswami (2021) and Omotoso et al (2022). More than 90% of women categorised under SMDP are unemployed.…”

Section: Women Empowermentsupporting

confidence: 68%

“…Bhattacharjee and Goswami (2021), in their study on multidimensional poverty among female domestic workers' households in the district of South 24 Parganas of West Bengal in India, found that about half of the households are multidimensionally poor due to their irregular income and unstable nature of work. Omotoso et al (2022), in a study on multidimensional poverty in South Africa, found that most women fall into poverty due to deprivation in employment and health indicators.…”

Section: Dimensions Of Gendered Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does Women’s Empowerment Influence Multidimensional Poverty? Empirical Insight from Rural Odisha of India

Biswal¹,

Mishra²,

Sarangi³

2023

JSSH

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The prominent role played by women’s empowerment and multidimensional poverty reduction in the development process is justified by including Goal-1 and Goal-5 under the 2030 agenda of UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals. This study examines the nexus between women’s empowerment and multidimensional poverty in rural areas of the Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha. The Alkire-Foster method is used to construct Women Empowerment Index and Multidimensional Poverty Index. Education, health, economic, and standard of living dimensions construct MPI and economic, social, political, and domestic empowerment dimensions for WEI. This study observed that more than two-thirds of women are deprived of asset ownership and employment, and more than half of nutrition, access to improved sanitation, and clean energy for cooking. The results of the OLS model revealed the positive impact of women’s empowerment with occupation, age, and education in reducing multidimensional poverty. Based on the findings, the study envisages appropriate policy intervention in enhancing the educational level and generation of self-employment opportunities in empowering women and reducing multidimensional poverty.

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Section: Women Empowermentsupporting

confidence: 68%

Section: Dimensions Of Gendered Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Women’s Empowerment Influence Multidimensional Poverty? Empirical Insight from Rural Odisha of India

Biswal¹,

Mishra²,

Sarangi³

2023

JSSH

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“…Rural women explained that household chores were often rooted on tedious, repetitive and heavy duties that took a lot of time to be accomplished and they could not be avoided. Similarly, it was also reported that household chores were among constrains that hindered rural women to participate effectively in income generation activities which had been a serious genderedpoverty dimension in sub-Saharan Africa (Prügl and Joshi, 2021;Omotoso et al, 2022). A rural woman explained during the household survey that: "For the most part, what describes women"s roles in discrepancy to those of men"s is that we have to perform our responsibilities simultaneously.…”

Section: Rural Women's Burden In Householdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of rural women’s time allocation on their wealth statuses in busega district, tanzania

Ngusa¹

2022

Glo J. Soc. Sci.

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The study examined time allocation per day among household chores versus income generation activities that influence wealth statuses of rural women in Busega District, Tanzania. Cross-sectional research design was adopted to conduct the study. The methods applied for data collection include household survey, focus group discussions, non-participant observations and documentary reviews. Qualitative data were analysed through content analysis. Quantitative data were analysed through cross-tabulation and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The results show that, the means of hours used by rural women in conducting each activity per day were lopsided on household chores. The average time shows that each rural woman used approximately 6 hours for conducting household chores and at least two hours for income generation activities per day. Furthermore, the wealth statuses were established by computing Principal Component Analysis as it was revealed that the majority 62.9% (132) of the rural women were poor having low incomes. The tercile classification took account for below TZS 200,000 indicating poor, TZS 200,001 to 600,000 for middle and TZS 600,001 and above for better-off as higher income. The study concludes that rural women’s income growth has been hampered by the burden of household chores because they were limited to participate effectively in productive activities. The paper recommends that, the government through the Ministry of Community Development, Gender and Special Groups experts should foster interventions that are grounded on increasing rural women’s participation in income generation activities

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An Assessment of Government Commitment to the Promotion and Protection of Women’s Rights in South Africa

Okbandrias

2022

Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development

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Profiling gendered multidimensional poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa

Cited by 5 publications

References 53 publications

Does Women’s Empowerment Influence Multidimensional Poverty? Empirical Insight from Rural Odisha of India

Does Women’s Empowerment Influence Multidimensional Poverty? Empirical Insight from Rural Odisha of India

Influence of rural women’s time allocation on their wealth statuses in busega district, tanzania

An Assessment of Government Commitment to the Promotion and Protection of Women’s Rights in South Africa

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