Women's empowerment and microfinance: Evidence from Kondoa district
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Date
2017
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Infinity Press
Abstract
One way of empowering women is through the provision of loans. There are
gender stereotypical beliefs about abilities of women to effectively utilize only small loans
and inability to engage in a profitable non-traditional self-employment. The study was
conducted in order to examine the women empowerment in Kondoa District and
recommend the appropriate ways in which women empowerment could be strengthened
or achieved.
The data were collected from 415 women among whom 214 were MFIs members whereas
201 were non-MFIs members. The empowerment of women engaged with MFIs was
measured in five dimensions which are legal, economic, interpersonal, familial and
political. The findings of the study show that women were empowered in economic,
interpersonal and familial dimensions. There is no total empowerment among the
surveyed women in Kondoa District.
Based on the findings, it is recommended that more education should be provided to men
in order to end the discriminatory practices in the society and patriarchal system of life.
The women in the rural areas should be provided with financial services by the
government in order to strengthen the operations of the SACCOS while financial
institutions should expand their operations to the rural areas for more women to obtain
loans.
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Keywords
Empowerment, Microfinance, Women empowerment, Microfinance, Institutions, Kondoa district
Citation
Josephat, P. K., Fulment, A. K., & Matunga, B. (2017). Women's empowerment and microfinance: Evidence from Kondoa district. Journal of Business Administration and Education, 9(1).