What Difference Can It Make? Assessing the impact of gender equality and empowerment in matters of inheritance in Egypt

Khodary, Yasmin

doi:10.1080/21520844.2018.1499336

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“…Only by addressing deeply rooted socio-cultural notions that the societal initiatives in Sohag and Assiut succeeded to change the perceptions and practices of women through variety of awareness-raising and outreach activities, such as seminars and meetings, interactive theater, door-knocking and education through sport. The societal initiatives also capitalized, in particular, on the role of clergy who enjoy significant influence and respect in rural and village-based communities (Khodary, 2018). Either during seminars or in the mediation committees, the clergy attempted to deconstruct old socio-cultural notions and reconstruct new ones in support of greater gender equality.…”

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“…In addition, as noted earlier in the literature of the feminist materialist wave, greater control over household resources by women can enhance countries’ growth patterns by changing spending in ways that benefit children though better spending on food and education. There is also a multiplier effect for women’s access to and control of inherited land and other resources, which transcend the direct effect on wellbeing of women and their families to the attainment of more inclusive rural and sustainable development that engage women into the overall process of development (Khodary, 2018; UNWOMEN, 2020). Clearly, in the case of Sohag and Assiut, ownership and access to land and other property proves to have a positive effect on the overall quality of life and socio-economic wellbeing of women and their families, which can be expected to feed into inclusive rural development.…”

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“…Panda and Agarwal (2005) and Khodary (2018) finds, on the other hand, that women’s access to agricultural land and natural resources increases women’s financial security and independence and, ultimately, their bargaining power within the family. As a result, they become less reluctant to tolerate domestic or intimate partner violence.…”

Section: Women and Environment/land: A Complex Relationshipmentioning

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Women, land and rural development in Egypt: a socio-cultural perspective

Khodary

2022

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Purpose The relationship between women and land is not a mere legal or technical relationship but one that is mediated through socio-cultural norms and notions. Building on the work of Feminism Environmentalism, but moving beyond Agarwal’s materialist system, this paper aims to assess the level of change (if any) in the perceptions and practices of rural communities in Sohag and Assiut toward women’s ownership and inheritance of land post the implementation of some societal initiatives by feminist organizations and what this means for rural development in these communities. In doing this, the paper explores the strengths and weaknesses of these societal initiatives. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses case study approach by focusing on societal initiatives in two Egyptian Governorates. It also follows a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design, whereby quantitative data is first driven by using a survey that assesses the level of change in the societal perceptions and practices toward women’s ownership of agricultural land and its implication for rural development. Quantitative data is then followed by qualitative methods, namely, eight focus group discussions with different societal groups, to have a more in-depth understanding and explanation of the occurring change (if any). Findings The research finds that a positive shift occurred in the societal perceptions and practices with regard to women’s ownership and inheritance of agricultural land as a result of the societal initiatives. This, in turn, had better implications for rural development in terms of improved socio-economic well-being and overall quality of life. This improvement can be traced back to the change in cultural notions and perceptions as a result of four factors: capitalizing on the roles of influential groups, relying on influential activities, targeting men, especially heads of households or elders, and building blocks or partnering with the various relevant entities. Practical implications The misperception of the nature of the women-–environment/land relationship and its confinement to legal solutions undermines the likelihood of improving this relationship and, subsequently, attainment of rural and sustainable development. This study provides some key lessons to improve the women–environment/land relationship and, in turn, enhance the chances for rural and sustainable development through addressing the underlying socio-cultural barriers. Social implications In Egypt, socio-cultural barriers hamper women’s ownership of agricultural land leading to only 5% of agriculture land being owned by women compared to 95% owned by men; a situation that is found in many other countries, such as Kenya, where women perform 70% of the agricultural labor, but possess less than 1% of the agricultural land. Improving women’s access to land, hence, solves a common social problem in Egypt and Africa and enhances gender equality. Originality/value Little work has been done to investigate the socio-cultural dimensions to the women–environment relationship. Hence, this study fills this gap and concludes with some lessons learned on how to improve the women–environment, particularly land, relationship.

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Women, land and rural development in Egypt: a socio-cultural perspective

Khodary

2022

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“…For example, in a survey of land ownership in India, Arun (1999) stated that although women can gain access to land in a variety of ways—through inheritance, marriage or informal networks—, none of these options guarantees effective command, because the culture transmitted by the church, the state and other institutions is strongly opposed to this reality. Another example is provided by Khodary’s (2018) study on the transmission of goods by inheritance that pictured dangerous cultural practices in some Sub‐Saharan African states, which include denial of the right to inheritance to women and violently evicting women from their homes upon the death of their husbands.…”

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“…Household-level elements include motherhood, care for children and family (Budig & Hodges, 2010;Gangl & Ziefle, 2009;Van Houtven et al, 2013), family structure (Fan & Babiarz, 2019;Raley & Sweeney, 2020;Sabri & Zakaria, 2015) and intimate partner violence (Adams et al, 2012;Kagotho & Vaughn, 2018;Leone et al, 2004;Sanders, 2015). Community and societal level elements include work and career trajectories (Farkas & O'Rand, 1998;Gornick et al, 2009), public policies (Boeckmann et al, 2015), characteristics of political regimes (Dannefer, 2003;Frericks, 2012;Madero-Cabib & Fasang, 2016;Ní Léime & Street, 2017), cultural elements that impact women's asset ownership (Arun, 1999;Khodary, 2018), access to financial services (Huang et al, 2016;Prina, 2015) and economic consequences of incidents of sexual violence (Loya, 2015).…”

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Women’s financial well‐being: A systematic literature review and directions for future research

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Ponchio

Basílio

2021

Int J Consumer Studies

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The study of financial well‐being has gained attention in recent years and a number of scholarly articles have pointed to gender‐related differences and their antecedents and consequents. The continuous growth of scholarly literature on women’s financial well‐being and its dispersion impose difficulties for researchers to comprehensively assess the state of knowledge on the topic. In this context, the objectives of this research are to conduct a systematic literature review of women’s financial well‐being and to propose directions for future research. This study comprises a review of 130 articles published in peer‐reviewed journals over the period 1990–2020. Bibliometric analysis was used to identify the year of publication and the countries surveyed, journal of publication, methodologies, concepts, measures and theoretical frameworks utilized; subsequent content analysis allowed us to summarize the main findings. We organized the identified antecedents of women’s financial well‐being into three categories: individual, household and community and societal level elements. The elements that constitute these categories are discussed and our findings point to important gender‐related differences. Based on the identified literature gaps, directions for future research are proposed. The theoretical contribution of this study lies in delivering a comprehensive overview of available evidence on women’s financial well‐being. Its practical and societal implications include the provision of knowledge that may allow better targeting of financial education programmes, economic empowerment interventions and public policies, which may help reduce the financial well‐being gender gap.

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Violence against Women in Egypt: A Closer Look at Intimate Partner Violence and Female Genital Mutilation

Khodary

2024

The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa

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What Difference Can It Make? Assessing the impact of gender equality and empowerment in matters of inheritance in Egypt

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Women, land and rural development in Egypt: a socio-cultural perspective

Women, land and rural development in Egypt: a socio-cultural perspective

Women’s financial well‐being: A systematic literature review and directions for future research

Violence against Women in Egypt: A Closer Look at Intimate Partner Violence and Female Genital Mutilation

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