Year 2024, Volume 9, Issue 2
| Year : | 2024 |
| Volume : | 9 |
| Issue : | 2 |
| Authors : | Jing WANG, Rui GU, Fengying NIE, Thomas DOGOT |
| Title : | WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN WESTERN CHINA: MEASUREMENT, DETERMINANT FACTORS AND ITS CORRELATION WITH POVERTY |
| Abstract : | Women’s empowerment is a key focus of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also an element in China’s national poverty reduction strategies. As most poverty identification, alleviation, and graduation strategies are targeted on households rather than individuals, the status of rural women’s empowerment remained insufficiently studied. This paper examines the status of women’s empowerment in the formerly poverty-stricken rural areas in western China, using data obtained in 2021 from a questionnaire-based survey on 1027 rural households in seven counties of four provinces. It constructs a women’s empowerment index with 10 indicators in five domains – production, resources, income, leadership, and time use – based on women’s empowerment theories and practices in agriculture. The study finds that the average level of women's empowerment is 0.654. Women are most empowered in the time use domain while least empowered in the leadership domain. Logistic regression results reveal that women’s ages, women’s educational years and the decision-making in women’s parental families are significant determinants of women’s empowerment. Further studies indicate that the role of family legacy is getting weaker in younger generations and stronger among spouses with closer ages. The household relative poverty status has no significant effect on women’s empowerment in this study, which implies that in rural areas, sociocultural factors might outweigh economic factors in determining women’s empowerment. |
| For citation : | Wang, J., Gu, R., Nie, F., Dogot, T. (2024). Women’s empowerment in western China: measurement, determinant factors and its correlation with poverty. AGROFOR International Journal, Volume 9. Issue No. 2. pp. 51-58. DOI: 10.7251/AGREN2402051W |
| Keywords : | Women’s empowerment, Rural household, Poverty reduction, China. |
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