Women’s-Group Fishponds in Bangladesh

Scarborough, William J.; Risman, Bárbara J.; Meola, Catherine

doi:10.1177/2378023117700419

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“…Participation in independent income-generating activities provides a good foundation-though it is not the only foundation-for empowerment (Kabeer 1999). Independent income generation is associated with an improvement in women's status and strengthened women's decision-making power (Scarborough et al 2017;Haque et al 2020;Shirajee 2013;Meinzen-Dick et al 2019). In this particular case, women were primarilv involved in poultry and small-livestock rearing.…”

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Assessing women’s empowerment, participation, and engagement in aquaculture in Bangladesh

Njogu,

Adam,

Farnworth

2024

Aquacult Int

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Women’s empowerment and gender equality are key goals for development and human rights. However, a significant gap still exists in achieving these twin goals. Formulating appropriate strategies for women’s empowerment requires first understanding context-specific patterns and sources of disempowerment. We use data collected using a questionnaire survey from 1653 households in Rangpur and Rajshahi districts in Bangladesh. Guided by an analytic tool that measures women’s empowerment, inclusion and agency (the project level Women’s Empowerment in Fisheries and aquaculture Index (pro-WEFI)), and using seven empowerment indicators, we provide findings on the status of women’s empowerment, participation, and engagement in aquaculture in Bangladesh. Results show that women were highly involved in making household decisions, mainly jointly with their husbands. However, data suggest a substantial gap in women’s access to financial services, in participation in aquaculture activities, and in access to and control over productive capital and remuneration for aquaculture labor. Finally, despite some women achieving adequacy on some indicators, most women in fish farming households in Bangladesh lack adequacy on many of the selected indicators.

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Assessing women’s empowerment, participation, and engagement in aquaculture in Bangladesh

Njogu,

Adam,

Farnworth

2024

Aquacult Int

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Synergies and trade-offs between climate change adaptation options and gender equality: a review of the global literature

Roy

Prakash

Some

et al. 2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Climate change impacts are being felt across sectors in all regions of the world, and adaptation projects are being implemented to reduce climate risks and existing vulnerabilities. Climate adaptation actions also have significant synergies and tradeoffs with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 5 on gender equality. Questions are increasingly being raised about the gendered and climate justice implications of different adaptation options. This paper investigates if reported climate change adaptation actions are contributing to advancing the goal of gender equality (SDG 5) or not. It focuses on linkages between individual targets of SDG 5 and climate change adaptation actions for nine major sectors where transformative climate actions are envisaged. The assessment is based on evidence of adaptation actions documented in 319 relevant research publications published during 2014–2020. Positive links to nine targets under SDG 5 are found in adaptation actions that are consciously designed to advance gender equality. However, in four sectors—ocean and coastal ecosystems; mountain ecosystems; poverty, livelihood, sustainable development; and industrial system transitions, we find more negative links than positive links. For adaptation actions to have positive impacts on gender equality, gender-focused targets must be intentionally brought in at the prioritisation, designing, planning, and implementation stages. An SDG 5+ approach, which takes into consideration intersectionality and gender aspects beyond women alone, can help adaptation actions move towards meeting gender equality and other climate justice goals. This reflexive approach is especially critical now, as we approach the mid-point in the timeline for achieving the SDGs.

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Social control in women’s pursuit of secondary education in Kathmandu, Nepal: ‘if I can’t sign my name, I can’t maintain my privacy.’

Karki

Mix

2021

Journal of Gender Studies

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Women’s-Group Fishponds in Bangladesh

Cited by 5 publications

References 48 publications

Assessing women’s empowerment, participation, and engagement in aquaculture in Bangladesh

Assessing women’s empowerment, participation, and engagement in aquaculture in Bangladesh

Synergies and trade-offs between climate change adaptation options and gender equality: a review of the global literature

Social control in women’s pursuit of secondary education in Kathmandu, Nepal: ‘if I can’t sign my name, I can’t maintain my privacy.’

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