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Remittances from women migrant workers are more likely to be used for “health, education, family and community development”, while men's remittances tend to be used for investments. [8] In developing countries such as Nepal, the majority of remittances made by women migrant workers go towards poverty reduction at the household level.
Kaberry published a much-quoted study of women in the Cameroon in 1952, and empirical data on male and female activities was documented in Nigerian Cocoa Farmers published in 1956 by Galletti, Baldwin and Dina. [3] Ester Boserup's pioneering Women's Role in Economic Development brought greater, attention to the importance of women's role in ...
Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities.
FEMNET, also called the African Women's Development and Communication Network, is an organization established in 1984 to promote women's development in Africa. FEMNET helps non-government organizations share information and approaches on women's development, equality and other human rights.
Women's education is one of the major explanatory variables behind the rates of social and economic development, [1] and has been shown to have a positive correlation with both. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to notable economist Lawrence Summers , "investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the ...
Women in Law & Development in Africa was established in February 1990 during a regional conference in Harare, Zimbabwe (with the theme of "Women, right and development: network for empowerment in Africa") [6] as a result of 6 women coming together with the idea for a pan-African organization after attending the World Women's Conference held in Nairobi, 1985. [7]
In collaboration with the MTN Foundation, Women in Tech Africa organized the MTN Girl Code project in 2017. [4] This project sought to increase the number of women participating in the MTN App Challenge (an MTN initiative run annually), [5] improve the number of ladies in the coding ecosystem in Ghana and encourage the number of female in the African Startup eco-system.
The relationship between motherhood and women's movements has led to the advent of Motherism, coined by the creator Catherine Acholonu as "an Afrocentric alternative to feminism". [1] In some parts of Africa, radical Western feminism was seen as an unhelpful imposition that did not align with the realities of African women's lives.