 The Role of Credit in Women’s Employment the Case of Women’s Cooperatives in IranZahra Karimi
Iranian Economic Review (IER), 2013, vol. 18, issue 2, 131-158 Abstract: Since 1980s, credit policy has been promoted as an important mechanism in job creation, especially for women. However, some researchers have showed that although credit programs have significant potential for contributing to women’s wellbeing, yet, many women borrowers have limited control over loans and/or resulted income. In such cases credit policy may not change women status. Women’s cooperatives are one of the institutional set up for mitigating female unemployment and promoting women’s position in the society and household. However, in most cases, cooperatives that established by the help of state subsidies may not realize the expected goals. Our field research about women’s cooperatives in Mazandaran province (Iran) confirms that there is no automatic benefit of access to finance for women; as many registered women’s cooperatives have not been able to create long lasting economic activity, despite of receiving loans. Keywords: Cooperatives; Employment; Gender; Labour Market (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eut:journl:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:131 Access Statistics for this article Iranian Economic Review (IER) is currently edited by Dr.Hossien Abbasinejad More articles in Iranian Economic Review (IER) from Faculty of Economics,University of Tehran.Tehran,Iran Contact information at EDIRC. |
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