Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning

Kawarazuka, Nozomi; Locke, Catherine; Seeley, Janet

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2018.1552559

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“…Women whose partners had higher education, being more likely to utilise the service of skilled birth attendants is consistent with Bhowmik et al [ 38 ]. Our finding is probable because most SSA countries are largely patriarchal societies [ 39 , 40 ], hence partners with high education who are aware of the importance of skilled birth attendance can easily induce their wives to utilise the service of SBAs.…”

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Women empowerment and skilled birth attendance in sub-Saharan Africa: A multi-country analysis

2021

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Introduction In 2017, the highest global maternal deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The WHO advocates that maternal deaths can be mitigated with the assistance of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) at childbirth. Women empowerment is also acknowledged as an enabling factor to women’s functionality and healthcare utilisation including use of SBAs’ services. Consequently, this study investigated the association between women empowerment and skilled birth attendance in SSA. Materials and methods This study involved the analysis of secondary data from the Demographic and Health Surveys of 29 countries conducted between January 1, 2010, and December 3, 2018. For this study, only women who had given birth in the five years prior to the surveys were included, which is 166,022. At 95% confidence interval, Binary Logistic Regression analyses were conducted and findings were presented as adjusted odds ratios (aORs). Results The overall prevalence of skilled birth attendance was 63.0%, with the lowest prevalence in Tanzania (13.8%) and highest in Rwanda (91.2%). Women who were empowered with high level of knowledge (aOR = 1.60, 95% CI = 1.51, 1.71), high decision-making power (aOR = 1.19, 95% CI = 1.15, 1.23), and low acceptance of wife beating had higher likelihood of skill birth attendance after adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics. Women from rural areas had lesser likelihood (OR = 0.53, 95% CI = 0.51–0.55) of skilled birth attendance compared to women from urban areas. Working women had a lesser likelihood of skilled birth attendance (OR = 0.91, 95% CI = 0.88–0.94) as compared to those not working. Women with secondary (OR = 2.13, 95% CI = 2.03–2.22), or higher education (OR = 4.40, 95% CI = 3.81–5.07), and women in the richest wealth status (OR = 3.50, 95% CI = 3.29–3.73) had higher likelihood of skilled birth attendance. Conclusion These findings accentuate that going forward, successful skilled birth attendant interventions are the ones that can prioritise the empowerment of women.

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Women empowerment and skilled birth attendance in sub-Saharan Africa: A multi-country analysis

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“…Negotiating through male kin (Sri Lanka), trading heritage (Mexico), kinship networks and personal contacts (Kenya), entrepreneurial linkages (Japan, Finland) (Harper et al, 2018;Kawarazuka et al, 2019;Medard et al, 2019) Perform resource monitoring roles (10 cases)…”

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Women’s experiences in influencing and shaping small‐scale fisheries governance

2022

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This paper synthesizes current empirical evidence on how women experience, shape and influence small‐scale fisheries (SSF) governance. Our synthesis addresses an important gap in the literature, and helps highlight the opportunities to improve women's participation in governance and advance gender equality. We identified, characterized and synthesized 54 empirical cases at the intersection of gender and SSF governance, which comprise the relevant body of literature. Our review confirms the need to embed gender in the empirical examination of SSF governance towards expanding the current evidence base on this topic. We found that the institutional contexts within which women participate reflect a broad spectrum of arrangements, including the interactions with rules and regulations; participatory arrangements such as co‐management; and informal norms, customary practices and relational spaces. We also synthesized a typology of governance tasks performed by women in SSF. The typology includes leadership roles and active participation in decision‐making; relational networking and collective action; exercising agency and legitimacy; resource monitoring; knowledge sharing; meeting attendance (with no/less participation in decision‐making); and activism and mass mobilization. Furthermore, we drew broader insights based on the patterns that emerged across the literature and highlighted implications for improving women's meaningful participation in SSF governance. For example, exploring the breadth of governance arrangements to include all governance spaces where women are active, adjusting governance arrangements to respond to current and emerging barriers, and recognizing how women's efforts link with societal values may help legitimize their representation in SSF governance. Findings of this review should be of interest to the scholarly community, practitioners and policymakers alike and inform future research agendas, policy dialogues and practice intervention.

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“…The dominance of men over women, reflected in patriarchy, was found in the prevalence of men in BMU committees, that men overwhelmingly held the position of Chair and the references to women on the committees being influenced by their husbands and being unwilling to speak, as well as sometimes not listened to. The reference to women acting on issues related to the livelihoods of women suggests that women have used the male-dominated spaces of BMU committees to "bargain with patriarchy" (Kandiyoti, 1988;Kawarazuka et al, 2019), creating opportunities for decision-making within patriarchal systems that are beneficial to the position and livelihoods of women.…”

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“…Whilst the costs of non-conformity may be high, there is evidence that women can and do "bargain with patriarchy" to modify gendered roles and practices without directly challenging patriarchy. From research into a fishing community in the coast of Kenya, Kawarazuka et al (2019) found that space for creating opportunities for decision-making was created by women through food provisioning, indirectly challenging local patriarchy. Kandiyoti (1988, p.275) explains the patriarchal bargain of any society as being reflected and defined in the "set of concrete constraints" within which women strategize.…”

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Women and fisheries co-management: Limits to participation on Lake Victoria

Nunan

Cepić

2020

Fisheries Research

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Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning

Cited by 20 publications

References 39 publications

Women empowerment and skilled birth attendance in sub-Saharan Africa: A multi-country analysis

Women empowerment and skilled birth attendance in sub-Saharan Africa: A multi-country analysis

Women’s experiences in influencing and shaping small‐scale fisheries governance

Women and fisheries co-management: Limits to participation on Lake Victoria

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