Property rights, intersectionality, and women's empowerment in Nepal.
Property is widely recognized as an important resource for empowering women. Many development policies worldwide therefore call for strengthening women's rights to property, especially to physical assets such as land and livestock. However, the relationship between property and women's empowerment i...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Rural Studies Vol. 70; pp. 26 - 36 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Aug2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=138547544&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 138547544 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 07430167 JL8 jtl: Journal of Rural Studies issn: 07430167 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2019 vid: 70 pid: 2410 pub: Elsevier B.V. artinfo: ui: 138547544 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.05.003 ppf: 26 ppct: 10 formats: tig: atl: Property rights, intersectionality, and women's empowerment in Nepal. aug: au: Pradhan, Rajendra Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Theis, Sophie affil: Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities, GPO Box 4524, Kathmandu, Nepal Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2033 K St. NW, Washington, DC, 20006, United States su: Nepal Property rights Women's empowerment Intersectionality Livestock Developmental programs sug: subj: Property rights Women's empowerment Intersectionality Nepal Live animal merchant wholesalers Livestock Merchant Wholesalers Livestock Developmental programs keyword: Empowerment Gender Intrahousehold Life cycle Empowerment Gender Intrahousehold Life cycle ab: Property is widely recognized as an important resource for empowering women. Many development policies worldwide therefore call for strengthening women's rights to property, especially to physical assets such as land and livestock. However, the relationship between property and women's empowerment is more complex than generally assumed because of the overlapping and dynamic nature of property rights. In this paper, we explore how property rights affect the empowerment of women at different stages of the life cycle and different social locations, ethnicities, household structures, and social classes, using the lens of intersectionality. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted for the "Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of a Livestock Transfer Program in Nepal," we examine patterns in women's strategies to exercise specific rights over joint and personal property within their households. The findings show that legal categories of property rights in Nepal fail to account for nuanced rights to assets shared within households. Rather than emphasize individual control over assets for women's empowerment, the social relations around property need to be considered to understand which rights women value. The paper makes recommendations for how research and development projects, especially in South Asia, can avoid misinterpreting asset and empowerment data by incorporating nuance around the concepts of property rights over the life cycle. • Women's joint and personal property rights in practice differ from legal definitions. • Household structure and relations with household members influence property rights. • Daughters-in-law in joint households have weaker joint and personal property rights. • Strategies to claim joint or personal property rights change over the life cycle. • Women's empowerment programs need to account for the social relations of property. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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