Gender Relations in Europe and Central Asia: Results from the Life in Transition Survey III

Aktakke, Nazli; Aran, Meltem A.; Boudet, Ana María Muñoz

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3426165

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“…Guided by previous studies that used publicly available surveys (Aktakke et al, 2019;Barrett et al, 2012;Habibov et al, 2017a;Davis and Williamson, 2019), we constructed two indices that capture women's empowerment: (1) the Index of Women's Asset Ownership and (2) the Index of Women's Autonomy in Household Decision-Making. The Index of Women's Asset Ownership is based on LITS questions that ask women about their ownership of three types of assets, namely, (a) land, (b) bank account, and (c) dwelling.…”

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Effect of the contextual (community) level social trust on women’s empowerment: an instrumental variable analysis of 26 nations

Auchynnikava,

Habibov,

Lyu

et al. 2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of contextual (community) level social trust on women’s empowerment. The specific knowledge gap explored in this study is that the previous studies theorized that community trust has a positive impact on women’s empowerment. Thus, an increase in trust in the community will empower women. However, such an assumption has been never empirically tested and confirmed. Against this backdrop, the present paper develops a theoretical argument on why the increase in community trust should lead to a higher level of women empowerment. Then, a cross-country survey was used as a data source to test the effect of community trust on women’s empowerment. A traditional single-stage OLS and instrumental variable regressions are estimated to test the effect of community trust on women’s empowerment and quantify the magnitude of such impact. The key finding of this paper is that community trust indeed significantly strengthens the empowerment of women by increasing women’s ownership of assets and improving the decision-making authority of women in the family. Importantly, our findings are robust for the separate rural and urban samples, as well as the samples of younger and older women. Equally, our findings are robust for an alternative set of instruments. The main implication of these findings is that policymakers, social administrators, and government authorities who are working on promoting gender equality should give priority to promoting community-based interventions that nurture and maintain women’s trust.

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Effect of the contextual (community) level social trust on women’s empowerment: an instrumental variable analysis of 26 nations

Auchynnikava,

Habibov,

Lyu

et al. 2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…The range of professions available to and chosen by women has expanded considerably, with the percentage of women with secondary engineering and higher education also growing very rapidly (Seitkhozhina, 2014;Seralinova, 2017). A number of researchers emphasize that this is a significant advantage of modern Kazakhstan compared to other developing countries in Central Asia and even the Middle East (Aktakke et al, 2019;Spector, 2019). At the same time, some researchers point to the presence of positive gender norms in the Kazakh fiscal legislation, which are more advanced than in other countries of the region (Kolovich & Shibuya, 2018).…”

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Changes in the Traditional Occupations and Discourse of Women: New Element of Human Capital in Redesigned Kazakh Society

Garifolla¹,

Mukhanbet²

2022

J Ethn Cult Stud

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Redesigning of developing economies includes the challenge of the inclusive materialization of women's human potential. This paper investigates changes in the women’s social status and the role of human capital in conveying the Kazakhs’ traditional values. The study includes a sample of 400 women. The sample’s overall demographic profile generally corresponds to the demographic profile of Kazakh society. The research findings established importance of traditional values and behaviors for Kazakh women. Educational attainment is a significant component of social status for Kazakh women, but the degree of its influence on achieving higher social status is perceived to be insignificant.

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Access to STEM: Gender Dimensions and Challenges

Sosale,

Harrison,

Tognatta

et al. 2023

Engendering Access to STEM Education and Careers in South Asia

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Gender Relations in Europe and Central Asia: Results from the Life in Transition Survey III

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Effect of the contextual (community) level social trust on women’s empowerment: an instrumental variable analysis of 26 nations

Effect of the contextual (community) level social trust on women’s empowerment: an instrumental variable analysis of 26 nations

Changes in the Traditional Occupations and Discourse of Women: New Element of Human Capital in Redesigned Kazakh Society

Access to STEM: Gender Dimensions and Challenges

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