Decision-Making Ability as a Source of Empowerment Among Rural Women of Pakistan

haq, Muhammad Abrar ul; Jali, Mohd Razani Mohd; Islam, Gazi Md Nural

doi:10.1007/s40609-017-0091-7

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“…In Pakistan, the men enrolment is encouraging while women have less education than male counterpart . Women in Pakistan are unable to start their own business due to lack of education and social norm prevail in rural areas (Abrar ul Haq, Razani, & Gazi, 2017). Thus, there is need to examine; how education helps women to increase empowerment by reducing potential barriers to their empowerment.…”

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“…Thus, there is need to examine; how education helps women to increase empowerment by reducing potential barriers to their empowerment. Education is associated with women's personality, decision making ability, mobility and directly contributes to socio-economic development of household, community and nation (Abrar ul Haq et al, 2017). Many studies reports that education and working status has a positive impact on women empowerment (Nowak, Dahal, & Hossain, 2016).…”

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Socio-Cultural factors affecting Women Economic Empowerment in Pakistan: A Situation Analysis

Choudhry¹,

Mutalib²,

Ismail³

2019

IJARBSS

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Women empowerment is a global key concern in terms of development. It has various shapes over the time and space but closely connected to the economic, socio-cultural, familial or interpersonal, legal, political, and psychological domains. Pakistan like many other countries have signatory of several international declarations till now to empower the women, but at the same time Pakistani women experience high level of discriminations and economic dependency is one of them. A variety of academic literature is available regarding women economic empowerment around the globe and in Pakistan. This article aims to describe a descriptive review of socio-cultural factors affecting women economic empowerment in Pakistan. The major socio-cultural factors are educational barriers, decent work and access to property. All these socio-cultural factors are potential barriers and create hurdles for women to become empowered. Further the state has failed to promulgate the policies in true letter and spirit. It seems that documenting a women empowerment policy has a state concern but has failed to bring out the oppressed and marginalized group out of oppression

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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Socio-Cultural factors affecting Women Economic Empowerment in Pakistan: A Situation Analysis

Choudhry¹,

Mutalib²,

Ismail³

2019

IJARBSS

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“…In relation to the specific aspect of Open access decision-making, much less consensus exists regarding what is desirable within MH (shared decision-making vs women making autonomous decisions), both in our study and in the literature. While certain more feminist groups have aimed to empower women to make their own decisions about reproductive health within MH care programmes, [45][46][47] other stakeholders emphasise that communication and shared decision-making with the partner leads to healthier relationships and better health outcomes. 39 48 49 The literature also reflects this troubled relationship between female empowerment and MI, with contradicting findings on whether the two concepts are positively correlated or not.…”

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Towards a global framework for assessing male involvement in maternal health: results of an international Delphi study

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PurposeCurrently, no standard instrument exists for assessing the concept of male involvement in maternal health, hampering comparison of results and interpretation of the literature. The aim of this study was to construct the key elements of a global multidimensional male involvement framework, based on the latest evidence and input of experts in the field.MethodsFor this purpose, a Delphi study, including an international panel of 26 experts, was carried out. The study consisted of three rounds, with 92% of respondents completing all three surveys. Experts were asked to rate indicators within six categories in terms of validity, feasibility, sensitivity, specificity and context robustness. Furthermore, they were encouraged to clarify their rating with open text responses. Indicators were excluded or adapted according to experts’ feedback before inclusion. A 85% agreement was used as threshold for consensus.ResultsA general consensus was reached for a global framework for assessing male involvement in maternal health, consisting of five categories: involvement in communication, involvement in decision-making, practical involvement, physical involvement and emotional involvement.ConclusionsUsing the male involvement framework as a tool to assess the concept of male involvement in maternal health at local, national, and international levels could allow improved assessment and comparison of study findings. Further research is needed for refining the indicators according to context and exploring how shared decision-making, gender equality and women’s empowerment can be assessed and facilitated within male involvement programmes.

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“…This study revealed that women in rural areas have more decision-making power than urban women on issues about them, their families, and society. Abrar-ul-Haq et al (2017) conducted a study in the rural areas of Southern Punjab, Pakistan, to investigate the relationship between education and women empowerment, which revealed that education, socioeconomic status, and family structure are associated with women's contribution to decision-making.…”

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Government’s Income Support and Women Empowerment: Regional Estimates of a Lower Middle-Income Economy

Urooj,

Bhatti,

Ahmad

et al. 2023

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Investment in women is the smart thing to do. Pakistan has to meet SDGs till 2030, among which the 5th goal is empowering women and gender equality. We have to find the correlates that affects the empowerment of a woman to empower them. For this purpose, the current study was designed. A large sample of 12339 married women aged between 15 to 49 years was taken from PDHS 2017-18. The status of women empowerment was evaluated by formulating an index (ranged from score 0 to 10) by taking the 8 dimensions of women empowerment namely, woman’s decision making autonomy, digital inclusion, educational status, employment status, ownership of house, self-esteem, consent in choosing husband and her inclusion in financial sectors. The extent of women empowerment is observed at urban and rural areas. For analysis, ordered logistic regression technique was applied by using SPSS-23. It was concluded that as compared to women of urban areas, the women belonged to rural areas were less empowered. The disaggregated analyses showed that the determining factors of women empowerment were affecting in similar way in both urban and rural areas, except that of BISP which was increasing women empowerment in rural areas but not in the urban areas.

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Decision-Making Ability as a Source of Empowerment Among Rural Women of Pakistan

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

Socio-Cultural factors affecting Women Economic Empowerment in Pakistan: A Situation Analysis

Socio-Cultural factors affecting Women Economic Empowerment in Pakistan: A Situation Analysis

Towards a global framework for assessing male involvement in maternal health: results of an international Delphi study

Government’s Income Support and Women Empowerment: Regional Estimates of a Lower Middle-Income Economy

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