Can Greater Attention to Women's Rights Help Address Income Inequality?

Dutta, Nabamita; Giddings, Lisa; Roy, Sanjukta

doi:10.1111/coep.12406

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“…Recently, Dutta et al (2019) show that providing more rights to women transform into higher participation in productive activities that improves the support for family income and reducing income inequality in the economy. They have used aggregate measure of women empowerment by using three indictors of women's rights (economic, social and political).…”

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“…In the previous studies, the impact of women empowerment on income inequality is analyzed indirectly through the gender gap and female labor force participation only (see, Mammen and Paxson, 2000;Gonzales et al, 2015;Duflo, 2012 andSin, 1999). Few studies have used aggregate measure of women's rights without distinguishing the importance of different dimensions of women empowerment for income inequality (Simpson, 1990;Santacreu et al, 2013;Dutta et al, 2019).…”

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Can Women Empowerment Explain Cross-Country Differences in Inequality? A Global Perspective

Wang

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2021

Soc Indic Res

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This paper investigates the relationship between women empowerment and income inequality. In particular, we examine whether empowering women in terms of raising their political, social and economic rights reduce income inequality. Furthermore, this paper also sheds light on the effects of women empowerment on income inequality in different economies characterized by income differences.Using data for 134 countries from 1945 to 2015, we estimate a panel data model with treatment for endogeneity, controlling for savings rate, arable land rate and age-dependency ratio. Our results indicate that women empowerment in all three aspects (social, political and economic) plays an important role in reducing income inequality. This effect is more prominent in lower-middle and upper-middle income countries and is robust to different measures of inequality and women empowerment, and an alternative estimation technique that takes care of endogeneity.

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Can Women Empowerment Explain Cross-Country Differences in Inequality? A Global Perspective

Wang

Naveed

2021

Soc Indic Res

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“…Due to the influence of traditional male power, men in our country are still in a strong position in terms of their rights and the possession of social resources: political, economic, cultural, environmental, etc. They can use their position to block or suppress the expression and eventual realization of women’s environmental interests in public participation in environmental protection activities [ 28 ]. Gender-neutral environmental and sustainable development policies tend to ignore the differences in the impacts of environmental and natural resource degradation and climate change on women and men.…”

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The Coordination of Environmental Protection and Female Discrimination Based on the Concept of Affirmative Action

Liao

Liu

2023

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With the development of society, the chemical industry is expanding, and the hazy weather everywhere is becoming increasingly frequent, already affecting people’s lives and causing them to pay more attention to environmental issues. Therefore, this paper highlights the role of women in environmental protection by studying the coordination of environmental protection and female discrimination based on the concept of affirmative action. Through this study and a survey, we found that China has not yet realized that women’s participation in environmental protection plays a key role in improving the quality of our environment and the development of ecological civilization. However, we should clearly understand that environmental issues are not only personal, they are related to the survival and development of a country, and as a member of that country, both women and men should have the right and obligation to protect the environment. Therefore, this article discusses the concept and meaning of affirmative action and gender discrimination in the context of research on these concepts, discussing the problems and phenomena that women encounter in environmental protection. These include the system of women’s environmental protection, gender issues for women in society, and the unequal treatment from the Government based on some studies. Through the study and analysis of the system of women’s environmental protection, the role and position of women in this regard is summarized. Finally, it is suggested that, for the construction and development of ecological civilization in China, it is necessary to fully integrate ecological civilization into all aspects of society and pay attention to environmental protection issues. Therefore, we should pay attention to the role of women in environmental protection, provide corresponding policies, and actively encourage women to partake in environmental protection in order to build an environmentally friendly and resource-saving society together.

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Gender equality and economic complexity

Nguyen

2021

Economic Systems

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Can Greater Attention to Women's Rights Help Address Income Inequality?

Cited by 6 publications

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Can Women Empowerment Explain Cross-Country Differences in Inequality? A Global Perspective

Can Women Empowerment Explain Cross-Country Differences in Inequality? A Global Perspective

The Coordination of Environmental Protection and Female Discrimination Based on the Concept of Affirmative Action

Gender equality and economic complexity

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