Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13063166
Keywords
gender and development; gender and division of labor; women’ s empowerment; gender inequalities; Kenya; Senegal; Nepal
Funding
- CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Food Security Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems [AID-OAA-L-15-00003]
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Food Security Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Extension and Advisory Services (INGENAES) project [AID-OAA-LA-14-00008]
- U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security graduate research grant program
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Women's empowerment is a key concept in gender and development scholarship, but cultural norms and values shape local understandings of empowerment differently in different places. By cross-examining data from different locations, researchers can gain a better understanding of how cultural factors influence local perceptions of empowerment.
Women's empowerment is a driving concept in gender and development scholarship. This scholarship often engages quantitative indices of evaluation that are unable to account for culturally specific meaning and nuance that shape local understandings of empowerment. Recent efforts within the field of international development are attempting to create methodological mechanisms for capturing this nuance. This study employs one such method, Community Concept Drawing (CCD), in rural villages within Kenya, Senegal, and Nepal. Findings indicate significant differences between the field sites in the local conceptualization of empowerment. Cross-examination of site-specific data yields an understanding of how cultural norms and values shape local perceptions of empowerment in ways that are critical for research that engages gendered understandings. Furthermore, such analysis is critical to a more accurate understanding of the locally specific context of gender inequity.
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