Title: Impact of Income Generation of Home Based Workers on Women Empowerment (A Study of Shahdra and Herbanspura Towns of Lahore, Pakistan)
Abstract: Women Empowerment is promoting women's sense of self-worth, their ability to determine their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves and others. This study focuses on exploration of the nature and degree of participation of women in decision making and the impact of income generation on decision making of Home Based workers (HBWs). Home-based worker‟ refers to the general category of workers, within the informal or unorganized sector, who carry out remunerative work within their homes or in the surrounding grounds. However, the term „home-based work‟ encompasses a wide diversity. Home-based workers do piecework for an employer, who can be a subcontractor, agent or a middleman, or they can be self-employed on their own or in family enterprises. The methodology design for the present study was based on the quantitative techniques. The study of home-based workers is based on the findings of a survey of 100 women undertaken in Shahdhra and Herbanspura. The sample covered a whole range of social and income classes. Combined information on women and their households were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire. The interview schedule comprised questions on earnings, ethnic affiliation, education, age, sex and division of domestic responsibilities, and employment histories of individual women, using the cluster-purposive sampling technique for the present study. Survey was conducted and a semi structured questionnaire was designed to gather the required information. The finding derived in the study showed that solely income could not empower women but still it is raising their participation in decision-making. It has improved their say in the matters of their family but income cannot be said as the alone factor as the factors like age, marital status, family structures and other socio-cultural factors also have great impact on decision making of HBWs. Key words: Women Empowerment, Decision making, Household, Socio-cultural factors
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-05-05
Language: en
Type: article
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