Dimensions of Women Empowerment and Gender Inequality: A Muslim World Perspective

Toseef Azid, Jennifer Ward-Batts and Toseef Azid

Chapter 28 in Economic Empowerment of Women in the Islamic World:Theory and Practice, 2020, pp 595-603 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Despite much recent attention to gender inequality and empowerment of women and girls, gender inequality persists in both developed and developing countries. We maintain after considering the chapters herein that gender inequality is not a consequence of religion per se, but of various dimensions of culture and social norms, institutions, laws and policies of the society, and the interaction of these factors with economic development. Culture and social norms contain much variation in interpretation of religion across time and space, and religion is often used as a rationale to support social rules, common practices, and law, even when these predate arrival of the religion. Nevertheless, these vary widely over space and time, so cannot be claimed to stem directly from a single religion…

Keywords: Islam; Gender Studies; Women Studies; Quran; Sunnah; Female Empowerment; Shariah; Prophet Muhammad; Business in Islam; Patriarchal Fundamentalism; Secular Feminism; Women's Rights; Human Rights; Aceh; Gender Empowerment Measure; Globalization; Press Freedom; Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; Education; Arab World; Nanofinance; Microfinance; Labour; Ottoman Empire; Iran; Waqaf; Waqf; Malaysia; Pakistan; Singapore; Dual-Income Households; Bangladesh; Food Security; Human Capital; Saudi Arabia; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 J16 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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