Non-governmental organizations and the socio-economic development of low-income women in India

Razvi, Meena; Roth, Gene L.

doi:10.1080/13678861003589008

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“…At an individual level, we may call gender equity empowerment or autonomy of women. Razvi and Roth () posit that individual empowerment is essential because women cannot wait for the opinions and practices of society to ratify gender equity for all. Johnson () asserts that empowering individual women and enabling them to achieve economic solvency facilitates empowering women as a collective because empowered women purchase services and products important to them.…”

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Economic solvency in the context of violence against women: a concept analysis

Gilroy

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McFarlane

2014

Health Soc Care Community

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What is known about this topic• Poverty, or lack of economic solvency, is both a risk factor and a potential outcome of intimate partner violence. What this paper adds• A conceptual definition of economic solvency.• A foundation on which an operational definition of economic solvency can be built so that future researchers can measure the concept.• The first concept analysis, to the authors' knowledge, on economic solvency. AbstractThe aim of this concept analysis is to define economic solvency in the context of violence against women. Poverty, or lack of resources, is often discussed as a risk factor for intimate partner violence. The concept of economic solvency, which may be a protective factor for women, is less often discussed and not well defined. Databases searched for the analysis included EBSCOhost, CINAHL, PubMed and Gender Watch. The Rodgers evolutionary method was used to perform the concept analysis. A total of 134 articles were retrieved, using the specified search terms 'economic solvency and women', 'economic self-reliance and women' and 'economic self-sufficiency and women'. Articles were included if they were peer reviewed, contained the keywords with sufficient context to determine the author's intended meaning, and focused on women only or contrasted men to women. Thirty-five articles were used in the concept analysis. The definition of economic solvency drawn from the concept analysis is: a long-term state that occurs when there is societal structure that supports gender equity and external resources are available and can be used by a woman who has necessary human capital, sustainable employment and independence. Just as poverty and violence are cyclical, so are economic solvency and empowerment of women. To decrease women's risk of intimate partner violence around the world and further improve the status of women, we recommend continued research on economic solvency, including the individual, family, community and societal resources required to obtain economic solvency and the human capital characteristics needed for sustainability.

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Economic solvency in the context of violence against women: a concept analysis

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McFarlane

2014

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“…The authors proposed sustainable talent management and development as a means for developing the capabilities of low-skilled, low-wage workers through greater emphasis on education and training, employee retention, and the linkage between employee development and business outcomes. Razvi and Roth's (2010) literature review describes how NGOs in India support the socioeconomic development of low-income women to help them overcome their marginalized status in the Indian workforce. Concerned that "mainstream HRD does not explain how and why only a certain segment of the Indian population participates in formal job sectors" (p. 66), the authors discussed the origin of Indian NGOs and described how they provide basic literacy education, job skills training, and access to credit and savings accounts to enhance the socioeconomic development of low-income women.…”

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The Persistence of Working Poor Families in a Changing U.S. Job Market

Torraco

2016

Human Resource Development Review

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This article explores the persistence of working poor families in the United Statesfamilies that live on the threshold of poverty despite at least one family member working full-time. The persistence of poverty in the United States has been exacerbated by recent changes in the job market that have altered the composition and availability of jobs due to technological unemployment, the polarization of jobs, declining job quality, and stagnation in job growth. The relationships between the persistence of working poor families and these changes in the job market are examined. The article concludes with a review of human resource development (HRD) research on poverty and the working poor, and a discussion of the implications of the persistence of working poor families for HRD research and practice.

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“…Self-learning and participatory learning that were promoted in the community constituted the key elements of the initiatives. In the case of India, NGOs have been providing a broad nontraditional context for investigating HRD processes and interventions (Razvi & Roth, 2010). Potential to help poor regions to transform to better conditions through diverse HRD strategies has been reported (Jha & Kumar, 2000).…”

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“…A review of the contexts in which HRD is used for SD reveals that non-western authors are more active in broadening HRD to include social domains (Razvi & Roth, 2010). While western authors tend to focus on “processes, systems, and people within organizations” (Razvi & Roth, 2010, p. 68), non-western authors are more likely to seek remedial interventions to solve practical issues through application of a thought-provoking HRD model applied to newer areas where the public good is pursued instead of corporate capitalism. In this regard, it is imperative to adopt a global perspective to address the use of HRD for SD when portraying conceptual linkages between HRD and SD.…”

Section: The Use Of Hrd For Sd: Various Contexts and Key Change Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%