Women Empowerment in UAE: A Systematic Review

Khayyal, Asma Omran Al; Alshurideh, Muhammad; Kurdi, Barween Al; Salloum, Said A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58669-0_66

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“…The earlier literature mainly focused on three different perspectives of female empowerment. Firstly, a sizeable body of literature is available on women's role in economic development [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. These studies confirmed that women significantly played their economic role through accessing ICTs, microfinancing, tourism development, reproductive healthcare decisions, and business entrepreneurship activities.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 93%

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Mujeed

Jabeen

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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The role of women in economic development and the global environment is vital for progressing them towards the United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG-5) that emphasized the need to empower women in every walk of life. The study examines women’s autonomy in the sustainable development agenda under China’s open innovation system from 1975 to 2019. The study employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, vector autoregressive (VAR) Granger causality, and innovation accounting matrix to estimate parameters. The existing data are summarized and collated in the context of China to explain as a correlational study. The results show that women’s autonomy moderated with technology spills over to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and substantiate the hump-shaped relationship between them. The increased spending on research and development (R&D) activities, patent publications, and renewable energy consumption empowers women to be equipped with the latest sustainable technologies to improve environmental quality. The pollution haven hypothesis verifies a given country, where trade liberalization policies tend to increase polluting industries to set up their plants that engaged in dirty production that exacerbate GHG emissions. The causality estimates confirmed that technological innovations and renewable energy consumption leads to women’s autonomy. In contrast, females’ share in the labor force participation rate leads to an increase in renewable energy consumption. Thus, it is evident that there is a positive role of women in the country’s sustainable development.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 93%

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Mujeed

Jabeen

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…This side of women empowerment is defined as the competence of women to hold the fort of their situations and categorize ambitions to lead their lives (Galie & Farnworth, 2019). To be specific to identify their goals, make the right decisions without any fear, or work on achieving what they aspire authorities, families, and society as a whole must play their significant part whereas, in southern Asian countries especially in Pakistan and India, the role of women is mostly guided by the male counterparts and patriarchal rules of society as in values and culture (Al Khayyal, Alshurideh, Al Kurdi, & Salloum, 2021).…”

Section: Literature Review Women Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Affecting Women Empowerment: A Micro Financing Perspective

Adeel

Sabir

Majid

2023

JEBV

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Women are a massive chunk of Pakistan’s population yet only 25-30 % of women participate in its economic development, and, this low percentage affects overall women empowerment. The current study is an effort to show how governments can enhance women’s empowerment by investing time, money, and resources through micro-financing and skill development for women entrepreneurs and making them a dynamic part of the economy. Current study proposes a Conceptual Three-Dimensional Women Empowerment Model to ensure that all aspects such as personal, relational, and economic facets of women empowerment are covered. Our research fills in the theoretical gap by adding the aspects of skill development that are provided by the micro-financing authorities that help women in acquiring specific skills to make their start-ups a success, another theoretical gap that would be covered by this study is the collection of primary data to investigate the relationship of education in the success of entrepreneurial activities of women that has not been investigated previously. Further, the incorporation of a three-dimensional women empowerment model would provide the exact speck of the empowerment felt by the women. Based on the available literature, the proposed Conceptual Model depicts that there are some key areas that have been worked on by the governments, NGOs, and UN to reduce poverty, upsurge education, and create equal opportunities in terms of technical and higher education for both genders. Women are a larger part of the population, it is not possible for societies to prosper without refining the women’s counterparts of the society. For the greater good of society, the role of micro-finance, skill development, and education can not be overlooked to empower women and that is going to be the emphasis of the study. The study will accommodate the government and other private institutions to make micro-financing successful for women counterparts of the population through proper training and skill development programs. It can also be useful for NGOs and banks to have private skill development programs to ensure the success rate of micro financed based businesses. The study will be helpful for women and society twofold. Firstly, women’s empowerment would be reflected in personal, relational, and economic facets of everyday life for females. Secondly, women will emerge to be productive participants in society and the overall economic progress of the country will improve. Women's empowerment is a dilemma in developing countries. This study will help raise women's status in society and ensure that investments made to women by governments, NGOs, and banks through micro-financing can be made efficacious through proper skill instigation and education.

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“…When it comes to entrepreneurship, people are driven by various motives. In most cases, a leading motivation comes with a particular venture prospect and intends to grab it, but the motivation may also be different (Al Khayyal et al, 2020). Many people have started new businesses out of necessity or lack better job opportunities.…”

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Changing Behaviours and Its Theories to Achieve the Desire for Entrepreneurship in Future Generations in the UAE and Gulf Region

Alhajeri¹

2022

IBR

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The Gulf region has been emerging as a prosperous hub of entrepreneurship and commercial innovation and is, at present, portraying continuous development. The success of this region is due to several different factors such as the size of the region, youth generation; digital economy; and its progressive access to technology. This study is a literature review and adopts a five-stage process to recruit studies that align with the aim of this study. The data was collected from journal articles, blogs, government websites, and articles from Google Scholar, Proquest, EBSCO, and EconLit. A total of 31 journal articles were reviewed and analyzed. This paper (1) identified variations in entrepreneurial activities, attitudes and perceptions, and aspirations among UAE youth; (2) explored factors defining the nature and level of UAE entrepreneurial work; and (3) presented the potential of entrepreneurship through education in the UAE; (4) need to strengthen technological transfers to entrepreneurial approach and networking opportunities. Initiatives taken by the UAE government in supporting entrepreneurial development were also presented and emphasized. Entrepreneurs are observed as a core aspect that encourages creativity and innovation, generates employment opportunities, and brings prosperity to society. This paper emphatically focuses on entrepreneurship research by presenting policy implications to improve UAE’s entrepreneurship in the country’s economy.

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Women Empowerment in UAE: A Systematic Review

Cited by 34 publications

References 18 publications

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Factors Affecting Women Empowerment: A Micro Financing Perspective

Changing Behaviours and Its Theories to Achieve the Desire for Entrepreneurship in Future Generations in the UAE and Gulf Region

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