Women’s Economic Empowerment and the State

Edited by Rhonda Breitkreuz and Marian Baird

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Abstract: This timely book examines the global trend of women’s economic as a critical pathway to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: gender equality. Expert authors integrate feminist, intersectional and critical human ecological perspectives to explore the role of the state in enabling and disabling conditions that contribute to greater wellbeing and equality for women worldwide. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Keywords: Women’s Economic Empowerment; Enabling And Disabling Environments; Critical Human Ecological Approach; Gender Equality; Paid And Unpaid Work; Role Of The State (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781803921167
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Setting the stage: women's economic empowerment from a global perspective

Rhonda Breitkreuz, Marian Baird, Karen D. Hughes and Alla Konnikov

Ch 2 What is women's “economic” empowerment? Meanings and measurement

Madeline Robbenhaar, Daniel Dinale, Rhonda Breitkreuz and Marian Baird

Ch 3 Broadening the focus on women's economic empowerment in Australia

Daniel Dinale, Marian Baird and Alison Williams

Ch 4 The challenges and achievements of women's economic empowerment in Brazil through participation in the labour market

Ana Hermeto, Simone Wajnman and Mariana Eugenio Almeida

Ch 5 Women's economic empowerment in Canada through an intersectional lens

Karen D. Hughes, Amy Kaler and Alla Konnikov

Ch 6 Entrepreneurship: the holy grail for women's economic empowerment in Ghana?

Charles Godfred Ackah, Solina Richter, Lydia Aziato and Sylvia Esther Gyan

Ch 7 Women migrant domestic workers negotiating restrictive state migration policies

Bindhulakshmi Pattadath and Meena Gopal

Ch 8 Women, employment and maternalism in Ireland

Dorota Szelewa

Ch 9 The enabling (and disabling) contexts of women's economic empowerment

Rhonda Breitkreuz, Haneen Abraham and Vanessa Osei Bonsu

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