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Advances in Gender Research

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Advances in Gender Research

Series Editors: Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos

Recent Volumes:

Volume 11: Sustainable Feminisms – Edited by Sonita Sarker, 2007

Volume 12: Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries – Edited by Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal, 2008

Volume 13: Perceiving Gender Locally, Globally, and Intersectionally – Edited by Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal, 2009

Volume 14: Interactions and Intersections of Gendered Bodies at Work, at Home, and at Play – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal, 2010

Volume 15: Analyzing Gender, Intersectionality, and Multiple Inequalities: Global, Transnational and Local Contexts – Edited by Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Marcia Texler Segal and Lin Tan, 2011

Volume 16: Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow and Vasilikie Demos, 2012

Volume 17: Notions of Family: Intersectional Perspectives – Edited by Marla H. Kohlman, Dana B. Krieg and Bette J. Dickerson, 2013

Volume 18 A: Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence: Part A – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2013

Volume 18 B: Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence: Part B – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2014

Volume 19: Gender Transformation in the Academy – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2014

Volume 20: At The Center: Feminism, Social Science and Knowledge – Edited by Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal, 2015

Volume 21: Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman – Edited by Shaminder Takhar, 2016

Volume 22: Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2016

Volume 23: Discourses of Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sanra L Bem – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2016

Volume 24: Gender Panic, Gender Policy – Edited By Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal

Volume 25: Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins – Edited by Tiffany L. Taylor and Katrina R. Bloch

Volume 26: Gender and the Media: Women’s Places – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos

Volume 27: Gender and Practice: Insights from the Field – Edited by Vasilikie Demos, Marcia Texler Segal and Kristy Kelly

Volume 28: Gender and Practice: Knowledge, Policy, Organizations – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos and Kristy Kelly

Advances in Gender Research Volume 29

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Advances in Women’s Empowerment: Critical Insight from Asia, Africa and Latin America

MARTA OCHMAN

Tecnologico de Monterrey, México

ARACELI ORTEGA-DÍAZ

Tecnologico de Monterrey, México

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

Editorial Board

Editors: Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal

Editorial Advisory Board

Miriam Adelman

Universidade do Paraná

Paraná, Brazil

Franca Bimbi

University of Padua

Padua, Italy

Max Greenberg

Boston University, USA

Tiffany Taylor

Kent State University, USA

March, 2020

Marla Kohlman

Kenyon College, USA

Chika Shinohara

Momoyama Gakuin University

(St Andrew’s University), Japan

Shaminder Takhar

London South Bank University, UK

Preface

Marta Ochman and Araceli Ortega-Díaz have brought together the chapters in this volume problematizing the idea of women’s empowerment as it relates to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. The chapters focus on three continents: Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Using both quantitative and qualitative data analyses, authors deconstruct the part education, fertility, and laws pertaining to marital and conjugal living contribute to women’s empowerment on a collectivist or individual basis. They consider the difference between women’s female labor force participation in slum and non-slum urban areas, the difference between women’s income mobility as a function of their mother’s versus their father’s status, and the geography of women’s homicides within a context of weak government support and strong civil society presence. They find that within a neoliberal economic context, empowerment may satisfy a short-term practical need, but it falls short of women’s strategic interest in transformational change.

Contributor Biographies

Sugata Bag, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He previously served at American Express as Business Analyst. His primary research interests are in areas of Law and Economics, Development Economics, Contract Theory and Applied Economics.

Gabriela Freitas da Cruz, an analyst at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistic (IBGE) since 2016, received a Ph.D in Economics from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2019. Her thesis concerned Intergenerational Mobility of Income in Brazil. Her research concentrates on social economics and the labor market.

Francisco Gasca, Ph.D is currently Professor of Economics in Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM). He is a member of the National Research System of the National Council of Science and Technology. His research focuses on regional and urban development with emphasis on spatial analysis of economic and demographic variables.

Isabelle Guérin is Senior Research Fellow, French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) affiliated to CESSMA and Associate, French Institute of Pondicherry. Specializing in political and moral economics of money, debt and finance, her work reveals how financialization produces new forms of inequalities and domination, but also alternative and solidarity-based initiatives.

Sébastien Michiels holds a PHD in Development Economics from the University of Bordeaux. After his PHD, he completed a 2-year Postdoctoral position at IRD (UMR DIAL), and he is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CNRS (UMR CREST). His work aims to explore the labour market dynamics in South India, focusing on social inequalities and migration.

Eva Medina Moral, PhD, is Associate Professor of Econometrics, Faculty of Economics and Senior Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting LR-Klein, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She coordinates projects about development in Euro-Mediterranean and Latin American regions (CESLA, ECONOLATIN). Her research interests include Renewable Energy, and Development and Poverty in developing countries.

Christophe Jalil Nordman, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) currently is assigned to the French Institute of Pondicherry (India) and mixed research unit DIAL. He studies labor in developing countries, including the formation of earnings, skills and social networks; gender and ethnic/caste discriminations; household vulnerabilities; and labor consequences of migrations.

Valéria Pero, Associate Professor, Economics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is currently visiting research fellow at the Mixed Research Unit DIAL IRD, University Paris-Dauphine. Her research on labor and social economics focuses on gender and labor market; urban and social mobility; and poverty, inequality and social policies.

Elena Reboul. After a curriculum in social sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Saclay and a master's degree in Public Policies and Development economics at the Paris School of Economics, she is currently PhD student at the Paris Diderot University, in the CESSMA laboratory under the supervision of Isabelle Guérin.

Anne-Sophie Robilliard, a development economist, is a Research Fellow at the French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and member of LEDA, a joint research unit of IRD, CNRS and Dauphine University. Her research concerns inequality, fiscal systems, gender in the labor market, and population dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ainhoa Herrarte Sánchez is a PhD in Economics and Associate Professor, Department of Economic Analysis, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research focuses on the evaluation of labor market policies, gender economics and household economics. Her articles appear in Economics of Education Review, Journal of Economic Inequality, Review of Economics of the Household.

Miguel Flores Segovia obtained a BA in Economics at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico, MSc in Economics at the University of Essex, England, and Ph.D in Demography from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His areas of expertise include spatial data analysis, applied demography and applied economics.

G. Venkatasubramanian, PhD in Sociology from the University of Pondicherry, is a sociologist in the Department of Social Sciences at the French Institute of Pondicherry (India). Over the past 25 years he has done work in rural geography, rural–urban linkages, migration, livelihood, labor, finance, environment, gender and caste relations.

Editor Biographies

Araceli Ortega Díaz, PhD, co-editor and contributor to this volume was a Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Currently she is a Associate Researcher at the Center for Educational and Social Studies (CEES) and a Professor in the Department of Economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Her research relates to quantitative models to assess public policies to reduce poverty. She led the NOPOOR-Mexico project aimed at reducing poverty and inequality, funded by the European Commission. She is national researcher S.N.I. 2, and is author of more than 20 papers in journals such as Journal of Environmental Management, Environmental Research Letters or Energy Research and Social Science. Her most recent publication is “Competing actors in the climate change arena in Mexico: A network analysis” in the Journal of Environmental Management.

Marta Ochman, PhD. co-editor and contributor to this volume, is a fulltime Professor and Researcher in School of Government in Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, and member of National Research System. Her research focuses on citizen participation in public policies, civic competencies, and social cohesion. She has authored three books, over ten articles in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters. Her latest publications are: Crisis de la representación y las candidaturas independientes en México. Colofón, 2019, and “Financing Development Projects: An Approach by Civil Society Organizations” in Latin American Policy. She has participated in projects funded by CONACyT and the European Commission (FP7).