Women’s Participation in Micro and Small Enterprises in Debremarkos City and Implication on their Right in Household Decision Making: A Qualitative Study from the Human Rights Perspective
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2014
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Abstract
This thesis aims to verify first whether women’s involvement in MSEs improves their household
decision-making power from the human rights perspective. Then, it also tries to show the means
that women’s involvement in MSEs improves their household decision making power from the
perspectives of human rights. In addition, it also tries to show the limitations that retards the
positive human rights influence of women’s involvement in MSEs on their household decisionmaking.
In addition, it tries to investigate the ways that those constraints affect the positive
human rights impacts of women’s involvement in MSEs on their household decision-making
power. In addition, it also presents the appropriate solutions that augment the decision making
right of women in the household through their involvement in MSEs.
The research shows that women’s involvement in MSEs improves their household decision
making right. It also asserts the existence of a variety of factors and constraints that retards the
positive human rights implications of women’s involvement in MSEs on their household decision
making power. For example, it affirms the shortage of income acquired from the sector as one
major constraint. It also states the existing cultural outlooks and patriarchical gender relation as
other constraints. It also asserts the existing low access to information and training and less
gender mainstreaming perspective as factor for the advancement of women’s household
decision-making through their involvement in MSEs. The level of the improvement of their rights
is also varies from the participants marital status, nature of MSEs, and other socio- economic
environment of the household.
It also presents the measures that is undertaken or is suggested to be undertaken by the sampled
participant that can boost household decision-making rights of women through their involvement
in MSEs. For instance, increasing their source of income, deep-rooted training with follow up
mechanism by government officials, change in traditional attitude towards women by others and
women themselves are the most considerable one. Finally, the research is recommended the need
to find out alternative mechanisms for the following targets. To increase the level of income of
the participant; to change different traditional and cultural norms found at different level of the
society; and to ensure access to training, information, and gender mainstreaming.
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Decision Making, Micro and Small Enterprises, Debremarkos city, Level of Income