Women’s Empowerment in the Context of Millennium Development Goal 3: A Case Study of Married Women in Ghana

Boateng, Godfred O.; Kuuire, Vincent Z.; Ung, Mengieng; Amoyaw, Jonathan; Armah, Frederick Ato; Luginaah, Isaac

doi:10.1007/s11205-012-0212-8

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“…By showing that high levels of education and financial autonomy greatly influence women's participation in decisionmaking, our analysis is consistent with previous studies on women's decision-making in other countries Boateng & al., 2012;Acharya & al., 2010). Yet, while our study raises many questions, it provides few answers regarding the relationship between women's socioeconomic status and domestic violence.…”

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confidence: 91%

Relationship between women’s socioeconomic status and empowerment in Burkina Faso: A focus on participation in decision-making and experience of domestic violence

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Gnoumou-Thiombiano

Kaboré

2014

APS

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confidence: 91%

Relationship between women’s socioeconomic status and empowerment in Burkina Faso: A focus on participation in decision-making and experience of domestic violence

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Gnoumou-Thiombiano

Kaboré

2014

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“…In the past, Ghanaian women were restricted to the kitchen whiles men schooled and as such women were not expected to influence the decision-making processes from domestic level to the national level [5]. In the family, men are still considered as heads of households which limit women in influencing allocation of domestic resources [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

Women Empowerment Through Microfinance: Empirical Evidence from Ghana

Addai¹

2017

JFA

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Abstract:Microfinance programmes are currently promoted as a key strategy for simultaneously addressing both women empowerment and poverty alleviation in Ghana. However, there has been a hot debate on the potency of microfinance in empowering the Ghanaian women. Apparently, this research was conducted to analyse the impact of microfinance services on the economic and social empowerment of women in Ghana. A purposive non-probability sampling technique was utilized in a 500 sample-size selection of female microfinance customers from Ashanti, Greater Accra, Central, Eastern and Western Regions of Ghana (100 from each region). For this study, SPSS and STATA Statistical tools were used to analyze the data and the ordered probit model was used as the estimation model. Glaring in this study is a statistically significant positive relationship between microfinance and women empowerment, for both economic and social but such relationship is dependent on marital status and educational level of the women with age having no controlling effect. Nevertheless, it is also evident in this study that women encounter myriad problems in accessing microfinance services of which high interest rate is paramount. Recommendations have been given on how microfinance outreach programmes could be enriched especially among the rural women since enhanced microfinance accessibility could be a perfect tool to accelerate economic and social empowerment of women in Ghana.

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“…AlMamun et al (2014) shows that microcredit programs to increase the income of poor women in urban areas in Malaysia contribute positively to their role in household decision making and empowerment. Education, employment and age are also found to be associated with the level of decision-making power (Jianakoplos and Bernasek 2008;Boateng et al 2014;Sinha 2012;Hou and Ma 2013). Other studies have shown that variations in family structure result in differences in household decision making (McConocha et al 1993;Razzouk et al 2007;Woolley 2003;Yusof and Duasa 2010).…”

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“…If empowerment is reflected in the ability to make choices related to their daily life which includes control over household finances and decision-making (Boateng et al 2014), then Chinese women have a lower level of empowerment compared to Malay women. As has been stated earlier, Chinese households have a much higher mean income than other households.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nonetheless, empowering women is a worthy cause in its own right as the role women play in decision making and their bargaining power in the household impact their own well-being. Women's ability to make choices related to their daily life which includes control over household finances and decision-making reflects their level of empowerment (Boateng et al 2014).…”

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Household Decision-Making in Malaysia: The Ethnic Dimension

Yusof

2014

Soc Indic Res

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Household financial decision-making process is an important issue as it has shown to have implications on key development outcomes such as child health and education, nutrition, expenditure, and allocation of labor. Women's ability to have control over household finances and decisions also reflects, to some extent, their level of empowerment. This study focuses on the effect of ethnicity on decision making in a household. There is relatively limited research in this area and data obtained from households in Malaysia, a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country, provides an opportunity for an in-depth examination of the ethnic dimension. The data is obtained from a random survey of 672 Malaysian urban households of which the selection of sample was strictly determined by the Department of Statistics Malaysia to ensure randomness. The findings show that there are differences across households of different ethnicity. Chinese households are found to be more traditional and patriarchal where decisions on household financial matters are more husband-dominated. Education contributes positively in giving women more control over household finances and decision-making. The results of the study highlight the importance of ethnicity in determining the level of household bargaining and decisionmaking power which has implications on strategies in marketing as well as national policies. Thus, any substantive and policy inferences in relations to women's empowerment must take into account the socio-cultural aspects, rather than based on overall national level analyses. The finding that education plays a significant role in empowering women is a positive outcome. With more Malaysian women attaining higher levels of education and becoming part of the workforce, their level of empowerment and wellbeing will improve and consequently provide a positive impact on key development outcomes of the country.

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Women’s Empowerment in the Context of Millennium Development Goal 3: A Case Study of Married Women in Ghana

Cited by 52 publications

References 20 publications

Relationship between women’s socioeconomic status and empowerment in Burkina Faso: A focus on participation in decision-making and experience of domestic violence

Relationship between women’s socioeconomic status and empowerment in Burkina Faso: A focus on participation in decision-making and experience of domestic violence

Women Empowerment Through Microfinance: Empirical Evidence from Ghana

Household Decision-Making in Malaysia: The Ethnic Dimension

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