The Impact of Autonomy on Women’s Agency
Kabeer’s simple and illustrative definition of empowerment is “the expansion in people’s ability to make strategic life choices in a context where this ability was previously denied to them” (Kabeer, 1999: 437). Women’s empowerment, then, is conceptualized as an increase in agency over time. Little...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2016 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositório: | Convergencia Revista de Cienias Sociales |
| Idioma: | espanhol inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.hemeroteca.uaemex.mx:article/4244 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://convergencia.uaemex.mx/article/view/4244 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | sociología, ciencias políticas agency; autonomy; women’s labor force participation; gender equality; wellbeing |
| Resumo: | Kabeer’s simple and illustrative definition of empowerment is “the expansion in people’s ability to make strategic life choices in a context where this ability was previously denied to them” (Kabeer, 1999: 437). Women’s empowerment, then, is conceptualized as an increase in agency over time. Little is it known about the importance of the effect of ‘self directed motivations and desires’ and autonomy on women’s agency. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationships among women’s autonomy and labor force participation along with their effects on women’s agency in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. For this, we use the structural equation modeling approach. Our results reveal that women’s autonomy and participation in the labor market positively influence their agency levels. |
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