Unheard voices: The challenge of inducing women’s civic speech

Parthasarathy, Ramya; Rao, Vijayendra; Palaniswamy, Nethra

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.10.007

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“…Our findings on increased political participation strongly resonates with findings of Palaniswamy et al (2019) who, in the context of the southern state of Tamil Nadu demonstrate a significant improvement in women's participation in gram sabha meetings by doubling their attendance. They also find increased social capital and women's sense of political efficacy and identity.…”

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Can weak ties create social capital? Evidence from Self-Help Groups in rural India

Deshpande

Khanna

2021

World Development

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The "strength of weak ties" has been established in the context of labour market outcomes, with theoretical and empirical investigation showing how weak ties lead to an increase in mobility and job opportunities. The impact of weak ties on community organisation is less well understood. We contribute to this literature by investigating if weak ties, generated via membership of livelihood programmes, can lead to the creation or enhancement of social capital. Based on data from one of the largest independent primary surveys for India, we find that participation in self-help groups had little impact on livelihoods, but led to the creation of significant social capital, as measured by indicators related to personal efficacy and collective action. The bulk of existing evidence on livelihood programmes is based on small samples. Our large sample size and innovative survey design allow us to detect a larger number of effects with greater certainty. We argue that the social capital generated by the programme is a significant positive impact (even though the main target of the programme is to strengthen livelihoods), as it strengthens the process of women's empowerment.

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Can weak ties create social capital? Evidence from Self-Help Groups in rural India

Deshpande

Khanna

2021

World Development

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“…It may eventually lead to enhancing women's "capabilities" (Sen 1999), expanding their ability to participate in the social and civic life of a community and improve their quality of life. This cascading process of change has found support in recent evidence regarding group members' participation in grassroots political institutions in rural India (Palaniswamy et al 2019, Sanyal 2019 and the development of self-efficacy beliefs among widowed and abandoned women enrolled in microcredit SHGs (Newransky et al 2014).…”

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From Brides to Business Owners: Microfinance and Women’s Entrepreneurship

Sanyal¹

2019

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Women's entrepreneurship through microfinance programs has been celebrated as a model for reducing poverty and empowering women. Yet, evidence of the incidence of women's entrepreneurship has been disappointing, leading to much critique and controversy. This article presents case narratives of women enrolled in microfinance programs in rural India who took the leap onto entrepreneurship and used microcredit loans to expand or start their small-scale livelihoods enterprises. These narratives illustrate the particular economic and social conditions that are found in cases where women have transitioned from being dependent, gender-compliant housewives to sole-earners or main breadwinners. Marital failure, functional absence or retreat of husband, economic distress, living in a nuclear household, and absence of an adult son are consistently evident in all cases of women's entrepreneurship. This qualitative analysis helps us understand why women's entrepreneurship is not more widespread despite the availability of microcredit loans.

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“…Other methods may be better suited to accurately measuring the quantum of speech by particular groups, by gender, caste, race, or other identity-based criteria. For example, some studies have quantitatively analysed citizens' and women's speech in Tamil Nadu village assemblies (Ban et al 2012;Palaniswamy et al 2019). But if the goal is to identify communicative styles and narrative strategies used in deliberation and to understand them as part of rhetorical moves and performances, then one must rely on qualitative methods such as the one proposed in this chapter.…”

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Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy

2022

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Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy. It offers thirty-one different methods that scholars use for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy. Each chapter presents one method by explaining its utility in deliberative democracy research and providing guidance on its application by drawing on examples from previous studies. The book hopes to inspire scholars to undertake methodologically robust, intellectually creative, and politically relevant research. It fills a significant gap in a rapidly growing field of research by assembling diverse methods and thereby expanding the range of methodological choices available to students, scholars, and practitioners of deliberative democracy.

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Unheard voices: The challenge of inducing women’s civic speech

Cited by 10 publications

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Can weak ties create social capital? Evidence from Self-Help Groups in rural India

Can weak ties create social capital? Evidence from Self-Help Groups in rural India

From Brides to Business Owners: Microfinance and Women’s Entrepreneurship

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy

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