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

In: ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD Theory and Practice

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  • Toseef Azid
  • Jennifer Ward-Batts
  • Toseef Azid

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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…

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  • Toseef Azid & Jennifer Ward-Batts & Toseef Azid, 2020. "Dimensions of Women Empowerment and Gender Inequality: A Muslim World Perspective," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Toseef Azid & Jennifer L Ward-Batts (ed.), ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD Theory and Practice, chapter 28, pages 595-603, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811212154_0028
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    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;
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    JEL classification:

    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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