Socialisation and women's participation in governance: exploring important themes from Ghana

Boateng, Janet Serwah; Banham, Vicki; Kosi, Isaac; Ayentimi, Desmond Tutu

doi:10.1504/ijgsds.2021.112142

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“…Men are becoming more involved in bathing and clothing the children and attending to children while their wives are busy. This appears to be something new coming from the GMF principles which contradict traditional gender role expectations [3,6,10]. One major observable difference was in changed norms about women speaking up as their voice has positively increased at both family and community level.…”

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Women empowerment and food-nutrition security in Sierra Leone: The Gender Model Family approach

Ayamga,

Ayawine,

Ayentimi

2023

Agric & Food Secur

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Background This research is conducted in the context of an integrated food security and nutrition project implemented by the Social Enterprise Development Foundation (SEND Sierra Leone) and Agro Forestry Farmers Association (AFFA) in rural Kenema and Pujehun Districts. This paper presents a qualitative ‘baseline’ action-learning research on the impact of the Gender Model Family (GMF) approach on women empowerment and the effects on enhanced outcomes along the agriculture-nutrition pathway. Qualitative data were collected using in-depth face-to-face interviews and focused group discussion (FGD) from the GMF beneficiaries. Results Linking Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Nutrition (LANN) has nutrition security as its aim, and the project objectives and indicators focus on nutrition, not gender—however, this ‘baseline’ action-learning research recognized that gender is a major underlying factor. The evidence suggests that the GMF approach fosters women empowerment and enhances outcomes in food and nutrition security as there has been a change in social rules about men taking part in domestic household work and women involvement in family decision-making. Conclusions Given that women play crucial roles as administrators of household food and nutrition security, empowering them is intimately related to the consolidation of household food systems, improves nutrition intake and the fight against food-nutrition insecurity in rural Africa.

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Women empowerment and food-nutrition security in Sierra Leone: The Gender Model Family approach

Ayamga,

Ayawine,

Ayentimi

2023

Agric & Food Secur

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“…The inhumane socioeconomic repercussions of corruption and bad governance inherent in successive male-dominated governments have sparked global interest in women's participation in governance (Enaifoghe & Maramura, 2019;Boateng et al, 2021;Dar & Shairgojri, 2022). Nevertheless, women remain underrepresented at all levels of decisionmaking in sub-Saharan Africa (International Parliamentary Union/IPU, 2023; United Nations Women/UN Women, 2023).…”

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Women’s Participation in Governance: A Quick Fix to Development Constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Isayomi,

Omodunbi,

Ogunleye

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JDE

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The inhuman socioeconomic repercussions of corruption and bad governance inherent in successive male-dominated governments have generated agitation for increased women’s participation in governance. Primarily, this agitation is based on the premise that women are less inclined to corruption, which is a major impediment to good governance. Given the notoriety of these two impediments to development, this study aims to investigate the relationship between women’s participation in governance, corruption, and quality of governance in sub-Saharan Africa from 1996 to 2021. This study analyzed annual panel data of four sub-Saharan African countries using the autoregressive distributed lag model and the Granger causality test. Governance quality was proxied by government effectiveness, while women’s participation in governance and corruption were proxied by the number of women in government positions and control of corruption, respectively. Economic development and institutional quality were used as control variables. The findings revealed negative main and interaction effects of women’s participation in governance and corruption on governance quality, unidirectional causality from corruption to women’s participation in governance and from governance quality to women’s participation in governance, and bidirectional causality between corruption and governance quality. Quantitative increases in women’s participation in governance and corruption exacerbates governance quality. Women’s ability to participate in governance is determined by the prevalence of corruption in previous years. Anticorruption campaigns that focused on women’s participation in governance often result in reductions in corruption insufficient for improvement of governance quality. Corruption and bad governance are mutually reinforcing. Governance quality determines women’s participation in governance. To minimize corruption and bad governance, sub-Saharan African countries should shift their focus away from merely increasing the number of women in government positions to building strong institutions capable of creating a meritocratic political and socioeconomic environment in which selfless women and men have equal chances of being elected or appointed to public offices.

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Why are women opting out of academic careers in higher education in Ghana? Implication for policy and practice

Ayentimi

Abadi

2022

Higher Education Research & Development

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Socialisation and women's participation in governance: exploring important themes from Ghana

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Women empowerment and food-nutrition security in Sierra Leone: The Gender Model Family approach

Women empowerment and food-nutrition security in Sierra Leone: The Gender Model Family approach

Women’s Participation in Governance: A Quick Fix to Development Constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Why are women opting out of academic careers in higher education in Ghana? Implication for policy and practice

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