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:: Volume 12, Issue 3 (3-2024) ::
scds 2024, 12(3): 9-36 Back to browse issues page
Meta-Analysis of Women's Economic Empowerment Studies and the social-cultural Implications in iran
Mahsa Tizchang , Zahra Naghizadeh , Haydeh Mahdavi , Reihaneh Shahvali
Head of empowerment committee, ACECR Al-zahra university
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The issue of women's empowerment is one of the most fundamental issues of contemporary societies, which has an inevitable link with their development. In Iran, in the fourth development program, women's empowerment was included among macro and executive policies. To that extend, many researches in different fields have tried to evaluate and measure the issue of women's empowerment in the country. The aim of the current research is to meta-analyze the studies conducted in the field of women's economic empowerment to provide a comprehensive picture of the findings and characteristics of the obtained studies. Qualitative meta-analysis method provides the possibility of evaluating and reviewing studies in two parts, formal and structural characteristics as well as content findings. A total of 70 reviewed studies including various articles and theses shared the two keywords of economic empowerment and women. A range of virtual databases such as Normagz and humanities database to the libraries of prestigious universities of the country are the source of data collection. Results show since mid-1990s, we have faced a considerable number of studies in this field. The applied methods are mostly quantitative and based on large-scale questionnaires. The results of the descriptive findings show that the executive policies of this field are mainly partial, in line with non-functional support (dependent) and without enough attention on the specificities and different coordinates of its fields, and there is a need to focus on the different needs of women, gender and cultural norms, and the infrastructure of each region.
Keywords: Agency, Development, Economy, Empowerment, Women
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2023/09/22 | Accepted: 2024/01/6 | Published: 2024/11/15
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Tizchang M, Naghizadeh Z, mahdavi H, Shahvali R. Meta-Analysis of Women's Economic Empowerment Studies and the social-cultural Implications in iran. scds 2024; 12 (3) :9-36
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