Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:

dc.date.accessioned2021-01-28T14:03:30Z
dc.date.available2021-01-28T14:03:30Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.identifierdoi:10.19211/KUP9783737606318
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-7376-0631-8 (e-book)
dc.identifier.uriurn:nbn:de:0002-406315
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/12452
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherkassel university press
dc.publisher.placeKassel
dc.relation.isbn978-3-7376-0630-1 (print)
dc.rightsUrheberrechtlich geschützt
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectagricultural interventionseng
dc.subjectdisempowermenteng
dc.subjectlivelihoodseng
dc.subjectpowereng
dc.subjectrural womeneng
dc.subject.ddc300
dc.subject.swdInterventionger
dc.subject.swdLandwirtschaftger
dc.subject.swdEntmachtungger
dc.subject.swdLebensunterhaltger
dc.subject.swdMachtger
dc.subject.swdLandfrauger
dc.subject.swdGhanager
dc.titleWomen’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:eng
dc.title.subtitleVoices from selected communities in Ghanaeng
dc.typeWorking paper
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dcterms.abstractAgricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of empowerment and its relation to existing gender orders. Using primary data from the Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment. We began by understanding the basis of women’s disempowerment and confirmed its location within agricultural production relations that granted women limited access to resources. Respondents recognised all the main dimensions of power: within, with, to and over. The restrictions of women’s empowerment to the provisioning role on condition that it did not usurp male power over women limited intervention’s ability to provide true empowerment for women. But signs of increasing transfer of women’s power within into group action and male acceptance of women’s expanding spheres of influence indicate that some grounds for true transformation in the future exists.eng
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
dcterms.creatorBritwum, Akua Opokua
dcterms.creatorAkorsu, Angela Dziedzom
dcterms.creatorBaidoo, Loretta
dcterms.extent33 Seiten
dcterms.isPartOfICDD Working Papers ;; No. 24ger
dcterms.source.seriesICDD Working Papersger
dcterms.source.volumeNo. 24ger
kup.bindingSoftcover
kup.institutionFB 05 / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
kup.iskuptrue
kup.seriesICDD Working Papers
kup.sizeDIN A4
kup.subjectSozialwissenschaft
kup.typMonographie
ubks.nodoigentrue

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