nfluence of Women's Economic Empowerment in Stabilizing their Marriage in Bahir Dar City

Markos, Fekadu

dc.contributor.author	Markos, Fekadu
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-18T09:28:51Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-18T09:28:51Z
dc.date.issued	2017-07-18
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7388
dc.description.abstract	Few studies were conducted to indicate the influence of microfinance on the life of clients, especially women. Even though such types of studies that critically assess the impact of micro finance on women's ~conomic empowerment have been conducted so far, they did not analyze connection between economic r empowerment through microfinance institutions and marriage stability. Given this knowledge gap this research tried to examine the influence of women 's economic empowerment on their marriage stability by taking eleven married women who are empowered economically by receiving loan from ACS! and are participating in the income generating activity of the informal sector in the city of Bahir Dar. In the course of investigating this problem primary and secondary sources of information were used. The data which is gathered through these methods is analyzed thematically. Based on the analysis of the data the result revealed that women's economic empowerment had both positive and negative impact on st~bilization ojmarriage. But the positive effect is more pronounced than the negative. Out of the total eleven women respondeiits nine claimed their marriage strengthened due to economic empowerment while the rest two responded the opposite. The effectiveness or inefficiency of economic empowerment to affect marriage positively or negatively depends on the success or failure of the business activity in which women are involved. Economic empowerment brought so many positive changes among the majority of the empowered women while deteriorating some others. Women registered positive changes in their income, their participation in household decision making increased, the attitude and the perception that they had to themselves improved, respect and recognition from the community increased, and above all household relationship is stabilized with the beginning of women's participation in the informal economic activity-using loan. But there are some women who exercised the disempowering effect of microfinance. To keep the stabilizing influence that loan brought on marriage and minimize failures in business activity in. some families MF!s like ACS! and other concerned bodies should work in collaboration. In this rlsearch it has been seen that failure in MF!s is attributed to the disappearance of one of the group member to pay debt back. So ACS! should come up with a mechanism of checking individuals with such behaviors before they deceased taking the money. The result also revealed that changes in th~ traditional genaer roles of women are making children, especially girls, to carry more burdens. This will have effect on their education. So micro finance lending programs should be seen from children's perspective.	en_US
dc.subject	GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES	en_US
dc.title	nfluence of Women's Economic Empowerment in Stabilizing their Marriage in Bahir Dar City	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US