Carter, Sara and Al-Dajani, H. (2008) The Empowerment of Self-employed Home Based Women Producers: Evidence from Jordan. Discussion paper. Diana International Research Symposium, Belfast.
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To a large extent, it has been accepted by policy makers that women's empowerment lies within the domains of women-led NPOs. This paper challenges that assumption by providing evidence illustrating that women-owned SMEs were considered more empowering than women-led NPOs by home-based women producers operating in Amman, Jordan. Women's experiences of self-employment and home-based production in the Middle East region continue to lack representation, rendering their contribution to the local and national economies as invisible. To this extent, this study sheds a new light on current conventional wisdom regarding women's experiences of self-employment in this region. The study explores the extent to which the established relationships between home-based women producers and women-owned SMEs have empowered the home-based producers. This was achieved by identifying and analysing the processes through which the women-owned SMEs empowered the home-based women producers, and then identifying the best practices for women's empowerment.
| Item type: | Monograph (Discussion paper) |
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| ID code: | 16070 |
| Notes: | see following: http://www3.babson.edu/ESHIP/research-publications/upload/Diana_Conference_Report_2008.doc and http://ww2.dkit.ie/content/download/11137/68266/file/08246%20DIANA%20Book-1.pdf |
| Keywords: | Non-profit organisations (NPOs), women-owned SMEs, role models, women's empowerment, economic development, Jordan., The family. Marriage. Women, Commerce, Economic Theory |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > The family. Marriage. Women Social Sciences > Commerce Social Sciences > Economic Theory |
| Department: | Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre For Entrepreneurship |
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| Depositing user: | Miss Carol Ann Balloch |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2010 13:15 |
| Last modified: | 12 Mar 2012 11:03 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/16070 |
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