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    The Socio-Economic Impact of Female Employment on Intimate Partner Violence; A study on Female Employees of Yirgalem Addis Textile Factory
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-06) Gelila Teame; Meron Zeleke(Assosate Profasor)
    Research addressing the relationship between employment and empowerment often focuses on examining such themes as access to employment opportunities and, and woman’s control over resources and women’s contribution to family earnings at the household level. There is an observable gap of research addressing the impact of women’s employment on GBV in the Ethiopian context. The study was conducted with the objective of identifying the different changes employment of women brings to their day-to-day lives specifically examining if women’s employment brings any change to gender relations at the household level affecting degree of intimate partner violence. It examined if women’s employment and their economic empowerment enhances their knowledge and protection of their basic rights and their engagement in economic, social and political spheres. The research was conducted in Yirgalem Addis Textile Factory (herein after YATF) which is commonly called Adey Abeba Textile Factory. The study used qualitative research approach mainly by drawing on the lived experiences of female key informants. It utilized both primary and secondary sources of data. The study argues that unlike the conventional argument that equates employment of with better provision and protection of women’s rights, the lived experiences of female employees of YATF shows that employment of women impacts the degree of IPV both positively and negatively and hence is very subjective . The study found out that even though employment of women in the garment and textile sector enhances their earning power that does not necessarily translate to their empowerment in other domains of life specifically the protection from IPV.