[ Analyse socio-économique de l’autonomisation des femmes rurales au Centre du Bénin ]
Volume 28, Issue 1, December 2019, Pages 269–283
TOMAVO Denansinsehou Marleine Eunice1 and DEGLA Pamphile2
1 Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Economiques et Sociales (LARDES), Université de Parakou, Benin
2 Département d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, Université de Parakou, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Women empowerment is an important issue of socioeconomic development of a country. However, in Benin where the situation of women remains worrying, the question of empowerment is very little tackled by research. Accordingly, this paper analyses the empowerment of rural women in the central part of Benin. Based on a random sample of 190 rural women and using empowerment indices, the study shows that only 19% of the women enjoy a decision-making autonomy whereas 41% of them are free of mobility. About the leadership, the most of the women can neither integrate nor leading any rural organisation without the consent of their husband, although they clearly enjoy a financial autonomy. The results also show that there is a significant relationship between decision-making autonomy and freedom of mobility. In the same way, decision-making autonomy is correlated with the marital status of women. Due to the influence of social norms and customs on the current situation of the women in the study area, one can suppose that any boosting of the empowerment process is subject to a major change in these factors.
Author Keywords: Empowerment, Emancipation, Women rights, Benin.
Volume 28, Issue 1, December 2019, Pages 269–283
TOMAVO Denansinsehou Marleine Eunice1 and DEGLA Pamphile2
1 Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Economiques et Sociales (LARDES), Université de Parakou, Benin
2 Département d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, Université de Parakou, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Women empowerment is an important issue of socioeconomic development of a country. However, in Benin where the situation of women remains worrying, the question of empowerment is very little tackled by research. Accordingly, this paper analyses the empowerment of rural women in the central part of Benin. Based on a random sample of 190 rural women and using empowerment indices, the study shows that only 19% of the women enjoy a decision-making autonomy whereas 41% of them are free of mobility. About the leadership, the most of the women can neither integrate nor leading any rural organisation without the consent of their husband, although they clearly enjoy a financial autonomy. The results also show that there is a significant relationship between decision-making autonomy and freedom of mobility. In the same way, decision-making autonomy is correlated with the marital status of women. Due to the influence of social norms and customs on the current situation of the women in the study area, one can suppose that any boosting of the empowerment process is subject to a major change in these factors.
Author Keywords: Empowerment, Emancipation, Women rights, Benin.
Abstract: (french)
Malgré l’importance de l’autonomisation des femmes dans le développement socioéconomique d’un pays, la question de l’autonomisation est très peu élucidée par la recherche au Bénin où la situation des femmes reste cependant préoccupante. La présente étude s’intéresse ainsi à l’analyse de l’autonomisation des femmes rurales au Centre du Bénin. Basée sur un échantillon aléatoire de 190 femmes rurales et utilisant des indices d’autonomisation construits à partir des variables indicatrices, l’étude montre que seulement 19% des femmes jouissent d’une autonomie décisionnelle contre 41% dans le cas de la mobilité. Quant au leadership, la majorité des femmes enquêtées n’ont ni la liberté d’intégrer ou de diriger une organisation villageoise sans l’autorisation de leur époux, mais jouissent d’une autonomie financière remarquable. L’étude montre également qu’il y a une relation significative entre l’autonomie décisionnelle et celle liée à la mobilité. Aussi existe-t-il une corrélation entre l’autonomie décisionnelle et le statut matrimonial de la femme. L’influence des normes sociales et coutumières dans la situation actuelle des femmes laisse toutefois supposer que toute accélération du processus d’autonomisation reste sujette à une transformation notable de ces normes.
Author Keywords: Autonomisation, Emancipation, Droit des femmes, Bénin.
How to Cite this Article
TOMAVO Denansinsehou Marleine Eunice and DEGLA Pamphile, “Socioeconomic analysis of rural women empowerment in Central Benin,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 269–283, December 2019.
