Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n1a10
R. Kasimba, Naume Zorodzai Choguya, Solomon Muqayi
The Zimbabwean government has for a while been reeling under pressure from inadequate resources for waste management mainly due to the expansion of its cities. The study explored household waste management in Hatcliffe Extension, a high-density suburb in Harare, and sought to identify dominant household solid waste management disposal systems by women. The study aim was to explore women’s experiences of solid waste management in the face of poor service delivery in refuse collection. Qualitative research methodology was employed to collect data in the study from conveniently sampled participants. In-depth interviews and observations were the instruments utilised for data collection. The study draws from the Rational Choice Theory to understand human behaviour in relation to people’s choices on suitable and sustainable practices in solid waste management and the environment. The study reveals lack of education and knowledge and poor refuse collection by responsible authorities as driving the disposal of diverse waste materials such as paper, diapers and plastic packages, which have heightened solid waste generation in the area. Dominant household solid waste management disposal systems in Hartcliffe Extension include illegal dumping, open burning, and burying of the waste materials. Overall, Hartcliffe Extension residents practise improper solid waste disposal systems due to lack of collection services from the Harare city council, which is the authority responsible for solid waste management. The study also established various ways in which poorly managed solid waste poses a threat to the environment. The study recommends the education of residents on eco-friendly waste disposal measures that do not pose a threat either to both human beings or the environment.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2022.2161127
Tanusree Paul, S. Dutta
Abstract Mobile phones are the most popularly used Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tool globally, although its usage among rural women in South Asia and Africa is remarkably low. This is alarming given that ICTs are fast emerging as a development imperative globally. Thus, it is opportune to generate a clear and comprehensive understanding of rural women’s patterns of mobile phone (MP) usage, the challenges therein, and to what extent they are able to negotiate the gender power relations embedded in mobile phones to access emancipatory spaces. This paper attempts to engage with these questions based on a systematic review of studies published in these two regions. The paper concludes that despite the persistence of several barriers to women’s MP use, there remains enormous scope for the inclusion of MPs in the everyday lives of rural women, especially for delivering outcomes in the context of livelihood, e-health services, and personal well-being. It also highlights the need for more studies to understand how women negotiate gender power relationships embedded in the use of mobile telephony and access new possibilities and freedoms. These studies need to engage with methodologies that permit more in-depth understanding of the nuanced processes of performing gender and negotiating gendered meanings associated with the use of MPs.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-16DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2022.2161126
Noorie Safa, R. Sharples, K. Dunn
Abstract This research examined how stereotypical constructions of masculinity impact the Rohingya community living in the Kutupalang Rohingya camp in Bangladesh. The study was conducted immediately after the 2017 influx of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh. A total of 28 in-depth interviews were conducted, comprising 16 Rohingya men and seven Rohingya women, and five humanitarian officials. The study also included two focus groups, one with Rohingya men and the other with Rohingya women. Rohingya populations’ lived experience of manhood sharply contrasts with their idealized construction of masculinities characterized by identity, wealth, power, education status, and the ability to be the family’s income earner. This idealized version of masculinity is shaped by personal experiences of exclusion combined with stereotypical notions of masculinity. These stereotypical notions of masculinity reinforce Rohingya men’s vulnerabilities in multiple ways. Firstly, the nonalignment between Rohingya men’s lived experience of manhood and stereotypical constructions of masculinity contributes to a crisis in their masculinity. Secondly, stereotypical masculine constructions allow state bodies to consider Rohingya men as antagonists of the state, normalizing the culture of violence against them. Thirdly, Rohingya men’s deviation from culturally expected masculine roles intensifies dissatisfaction among both Rohingya men and women, resulting in violence against women at the intrahousehold level. Overall, the study found that stereotypical masculinities play a pivotal role in reinforcing gender-based violence by maintaining and reproducing unequal power relations and gender order. Consequently, such constructions can turn a marginalized man into either a victim or a perpetrator, depending on his gendered power position under a particular circumstance.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2022.2144104
Mahbub Alam Prodip
Abstract This comparative case study compares the facilitating factors that promote quota-elected women’s political empowerment in local-level politics, in the Gram Panchayat in India and the Union Parishad in Bangladesh. It reveals that gender quotas do not spontaneously promote women’s political empowerment. Rather, women’s political empowerment depends on a number of institutional and political factors – gender quotas with provisions, party affiliation and political experience; socio-economic and cultural factors – education and training, labor force participation, and religion; and individual-oriented factors – civic duty and political ambitions, honesty, sincerity, and good behavior, and forming coalitions with other members. The findings show that these facilitating factors do not have an equal impact on quota-elected women in India and Bangladesh. The study thus offers a new direction for research on the enablers of quota-elected women’s political empowerment examining the determinants of women’s representation in politics.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2022.2140382
G. Gebre, Yuichiro Amekawa, D. Rahut
Abstract Both male- and female-headed farm households grow maize in Ethiopia. However, little is known about the difference between male- and female-headed households in the adoption of high-yielding technologies for maize. This study examines the difference between male- and female-headed households in their decision to adopt and the intensity of adoption of improved maize technologies in Dawuro zone, Southwestern Ethiopia. The study uses primary data collected in 2018 from 560 maize-producing households in Dawuro zone, Ethiopia. As the female-headed households are not homogenous, this study separately assessed gender differences in improved maize technology adoption between de facto female-headed households and de jure female-headed households. The results show that the intensity of adoption of improved maize varieties (IMVs) and chemical fertilizers on plots managed by male-headed households is statistically different from those managed by female-headed households. The intensity of adoption of IMVs and chemical fertilizers by female-headed household is lower compared to male-headed households. As economic status is a key driver of the adoption of IMVs and fertilizer application, it is recommended that the policies and programs that aim at developing and disseminating quality maize seeds and fertilizers in Dawuro zone should support economically poor female-headed households, particularly, de jure female heads.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2022.2140381
Rohini Ram Mohan, R. Puskur, D. Chandrasekar, H. Valera
Abstract This paper unpacks the complex relationship between migration of men and the decision making power of the women who “stay behind” in Bihar, Eastern India. We use mixed methods research design to assess whether women perceive a shift in decision making “authority” between different members in households where men migrate and examine the subjective meanings of these shifts. Using a retrospective survey, we map the extent to which women report shifts in decision making “authority” after the migration of male members. Decision making is examined for various activities classified into four domains: agricultural practices, labor allocation, machinery and purchase of productive assets, and household expenditure and activities. Overall, patterns indicate a nominal change in the proportional distribution of perceived household decision authority for all categories and shift toward joint decision making (by wife and husband) emerging as an important trajectory. Using multinomial regression and interpretative analysis of qualitative findings, the paper sheds light on the role of age, family type, household and migrant characteristics in shaping the direction of shifts, and limiting the transfer of meaningful bargaining power to women. The paper makes a case that the transformation of the patriarchal habitus requires a more substantial transformation of livelihood capitals.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2022.2137893
Klemens Weigl, M. Steinhauser, A. Riener
Abstract Automated vehicles (AVs) are promoted with numerous benefits such as enabling driver-passengers to perform non-driving-related tasks (NDRTs) while increasing road safety and reducing the environmental impact. However, public acceptance will play an essential role in the (non-)adoption of AVs. As yet, there has been scant research on the acceptance of AVs differentiated by gender across the lifespan. Therefore, we developed a questionnaire on the acceptance of automated driving (QAAD) and queried 351 female and 374 male participants aged 18–96 years in Germany. Our findings reveal substantial gender differences indicating that women assign lower ratings to the factors on positive aspects of AVs (PRO), NDRTs, and on Early Adoption, and higher values to the factors on worries about AVs (CON) and Sustainability than men, respectively. Additionally, we found that younger people reported higher scores for PRO, NDRTs, and Early Adoption than older people. However, we observed an age group effect not for all levels of automated driving and not for Sustainability. The identified evidence suggests that it is essential to address women and men separately across the lifespan if car manufacturers want AVs to be accepted in the future. Our findings may serve as a guideline for research on AVs in developing countries.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2022.2133360
Yee Shan Goh, S. Tan, Su-wan Gan
Abstract Sexting behavior is a contemporary form of sexual expression where people can send, receive, and exchange sexually suggestive content online. The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has greatly exposed emerging adults to sexting behavior. The present study aimed to examine the level of engagement in sexting behavior and the sexting motives (intimacy, enhancement, self-affirmation, coping, peer pressure, partner approval) among emerging adults in Malaysia during the pandemic lockdown period. Men and individuals in a relationship were previously observed to have reported a higher engagement in sexting. Therefore, the present study also investigated the differences in gender and relationship status in sexting behavior. A cross-sectional quantitative study was adopted to recruit 252 emerging adult respondents (M age = 22.84, SD age = 2.05, females = 53.1%) through a purposive sampling method. The descriptive statistics indicated that nine in 10 emerging adults sexted and that an independent t-test depicted men and individuals in relationships being more likely to engage in sexting behavior. The hierarchical linear regression too showed that sexting motives of intimacy, enhancement, peer pressure, and partner approval contributed to a higher level of sexting behavior. Overall, the results may serve as resourceful input for future revisions and implementation of sexual reproductive health education.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2022.2140380
Gina Zanolini Morrison
Abstract Spiritual beliefs bring comfort, order, and meaning to life in every culture, particularly in challenging times. To gain access to the spiritual beliefs and practices of Malaysia, a uniquely multicultural nation in the throes of rapid development and political change, we interviewed a diversity of Malaysian women about their spiritual beliefs. Using the lens of gender to frame the study, we focused on working women as it was theorized that women’s ways of knowing might provide insight to the challenge of sustaining traditional spiritual values while maintaining careers in the modern world, which often holds more restrictive views on spiritualism. In-depth interviews revealed a common knowledge of the rules of the invisible world, including how to gain access to it, and respect for ancient practices regardless of religion, career, ethnicity, age, or educational level. Most importantly, sharing spiritual beliefs and practices provided a means of sustaining traditional culture in the everchanging flows of Malaysia’s rapid development.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2022/v11n4a5
Lindokuhle L. Ngcobo
In most developing countries, people with disabilities, particularly women, are ignored and neglected in terms of service delivery, policy inclusion, and gender mainstreaming in public and private sectors and society in general, and South Africa is not immune to this pandemic. In spite of the South Africa government’s attempts to improve the rights of women with disabilities, there has been a gap in the local implementation of these programmes and regulations. Thus, the difficulties faced by women with disabilities endure and are more apparent in rural regions than in urban ones. This article evaluates the well-being of women with disabilities in Nkandla Local Municipality using qualitative analysis in accordance with relevant policies. The study is anchored on the Feminist Disability Theory, policy implementation, and Stakeholder Theory, which are meant to support and shape the objectives of this study. The research findings reveal that most women with a disability experience various challenges related to health care, education, transport and infrastructure, inclusion, participation, and abuse. These obstacles further diminish their ability to exercise their rights. Consequently, the study suggests that the government should demonstrate political will and that resources for organisations that execute disability policies should be enhanced. The resourcing of these institutions will allow them to execute their mandate effectively and ensure the progressive realization of disabled women’s rights. In addition, the researchers advocate for additional empirical study to improve awareness of the concerns and obstacles affecting women with disabilities and disability rights.
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