Economic Empowerment of Women The Direct and Underlying Factors A Case Study of Quetta City
Keywords:
Direct, underlaying, empowerment, women, economic, factorsAbstract
Current momentum around women’s economic empowerment offers
huge scope for bringing about real changes in women’s lives. But
earning an income or having access to credit cannot be assumed to
bring automatic benefits for women. This research is a critical study
that aims to analyse both direct and underlying factors that effect the
economic empowerment of women. The study is bothquantitative and
qualitative in nature. A total of 80 women were selected for primary
data collection through employing multiple techniques of sampling.The
study focuses that how increased access to resources can be translated
into changes in the strategic choices that women are able to make – at
the level of the household and community, as well as at work. What of
the terms on which women gain access to resources – Whether they are
empowering or exploitative? The study finds out the impacts of
women’s greater access to resources on gender relations and norms
more broadly. In this study to identify 10 factors that can enable (or
constrain) women’s economic empowerment and outline ensuing
policy recommendations.
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