Empowering and shaping gender relations? Contesting the microfinance–gender empowerment discourse

Autor:	Thomas Yeboah, Emmanuel Kumi, Albert A. Arhin, Lucy Owusu
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Microfinance Unintended consequences media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Gender studies Development law.invention Subordination (finance) Bargaining power law Argument Rhetoric Mainstream Sociology Empowerment media_common
Zdroj:	Development in Practice. 25:895-908
ISSN:	1364-9213 0961-4524
DOI:	10.1080/09614524.2015.1064361
Popis:	This article critically examines the role of microfinance in shaping gender relations and empowerment outcomes for women. One aim of advancing credit to women is to empower them, thereby increasing their bargaining power and challenging existing gender subordination. We caution against this view and instead show that the mainstream argument is much more complex than what the popular rhetoric preaches. We argue that lack of a systematic strategy to incorporate men and the wider socio-cultural dynamics within which women are domiciled radically constrain the empowerment potential of microcredit programmes, and in some contexts may lead to unintended consequences for women.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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