Njogu Lucy, Adam Rahma, Farnworth Cathy Rozel
WorldFish Kenya, c/o International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, 00100 Kenya.
School of Global Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Aquac Int. 2024;32(5):6303-6331. doi: 10.1007/s10499-024-01467-7. Epub 2024 Apr 11.
Women's empowerment and gender equality are key goals for development and human rights. However, a significant gap still exists in achieving these twin goals. Formulating appropriate strategies for women's empowerment requires first understanding context-specific patterns and sources of disempowerment. We use data collected using a questionnaire survey from 1653 households in Rangpur and Rajshahi districts in Bangladesh. Guided by an analytic tool that measures women's empowerment, inclusion and agency (the project level Women's Empowerment in Fisheries and aquaculture Index (pro-WEFI)), and using seven empowerment indicators, we provide findings on the status of women's empowerment, participation, and engagement in aquaculture in Bangladesh. Results show that women were highly involved in making household decisions, mainly jointly with their husbands. However, data suggest a substantial gap in women's access to financial services, in participation in aquaculture activities, and in access to and control over productive capital and remuneration for aquaculture labor. Finally, despite some women achieving adequacy on some indicators, most women in fish farming households in Bangladesh lack adequacy on many of the selected indicators.
妇女赋权和性别平等是发展及人权的关键目标。然而，在实现这两个目标方面仍存在显著差距。制定适当的妇女赋权战略首先需要了解具体背景下的剥夺权力模式和根源。我们使用通过问卷调查从孟加拉国朗布尔和拉杰沙希地区的1653户家庭收集的数据。在一个衡量妇女赋权、包容性和能动性的分析工具（项目层面的渔业和水产养殖妇女赋权指数（pro-WEFI））的指导下，并使用七个赋权指标，我们给出了关于孟加拉国妇女在水产养殖方面的赋权、参与和介入状况的研究结果。结果表明，妇女高度参与家庭决策，主要是与丈夫共同做出决策。然而，数据显示，妇女在获得金融服务、参与水产养殖活动以及获取和控制生产资本及水产养殖劳动报酬方面存在巨大差距。最后，尽管一些妇女在某些指标上达到了适当水平，但孟加拉国养鱼家庭中的大多数妇女在许多选定指标上缺乏适当性。
