Women’s entrepreneurship in Rwanda: overcoming entrepreneurial stereotypes through government support

Shema, Jean Bosco; Mutarindwa, Samuel

doi:10.4337/9781785367533.00010

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“…This makes efforts to empower women in rural Africa quite hard to achieve the intended targets. In rural areas, women are limited from participating in nonfarm employment because of gender stereotypes (Esuruku, 2010;Shema and Mutarindwa, 2017). Nonfarm employment can therefore, play an indirect or direct role in women's empowerment and emancipation.…”

Section: Women and Rural Nonfarm Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women in nonfarm rural employment: implications on the social and economic empowerment of rural women in Uganda

Kantono¹,

Nakalema²,

Namujogo³

2021

J. Afr. Stud. Dev

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Nonfarm employment is an increasing form of employment in rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is partly because many of the workers in developing countries especially in Sub-Saharan Africa are selfemployed workers. Most women in Uganda do not own land since customary land ownership system deprives women of owning land. This has pushed women to nonfarm employment in urban areas, semirural, and rural areas. This paper explored the implications of nonfarm rural employment on the social and economic empowerment of women in rural areas. The findings revealed that nonfarm rural employment boosts women's income, puts women in leadership positions in women's groups such as the savings groups, and empowers women to become independent by reducing economic dependence on men or their husbands while also providing women with decision making power both in the community and households. Additionally, successful women in nonfarm employment, especially selfemployed women, are role models and a motivation to other rural women to venture into nonfarm employment. Being successful as a woman in nonfarm employment also comes along with leadership roles and high social status in the community.

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Section: Women and Rural Nonfarm Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%