An assessment on of economic contribution of Women in Mtwara Mikindani Municipality.
STELLA MARIS MTWARA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
(A Constituent College of Saint Augustine University
of Tanzania)
FACULTY
OF EDUCATION
An assessment on of economic contribution of Women in Mtwara Mikindani Municipality.
Research proposal Submitted
in Partial fulfillment of the Award of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with
Education (BAED)
By:
VITALES GODSON
STE/ BAED/ 163209
2019
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Despite
the Women play important role in income generating activities, the rates of in
women’s participation in income generating activities compared to man is low
which make the women to be behind the line of income equality between them
compared to men for instance Between 1995 and 2015, the global female labor
force participation rate decreased from 52.4 to 49.6 per cent. The
corresponding figures for men are 79.9 and 76.1 per cent, respectively.
Worldwide, the chances for women to participate in the labor market remain
almost 27 percentage points lower than those for men (United Nations,
2014). Women’s lower participation rates translate into fewer income generating
opportunities, with little variation over time, which negatively affects
women’s earning capacity and economic security. Many of the economic gains made
by women in industrially developed countries since the 1960s are in danger of
being eroded, which seems to be in part a result of the restructuring of both
the global and the domestic economies. This trend is part of an economic
restructuring shift away in income generating activities among the women are
largely consisted of subsistence and small-scale activities. However, many
participating women in income generating activities remain poor with little
gain from their participation in income gaining that are more likely to consist
little gain.
However
women in Mtwara region as one involved much in income generating activities as
compared with men but women still remain poor as compared with men also the
women suffer from different problem which undermine their fully participation
in income generating activities the major problem that discourage the women to
participate in fully participation in income generating activities in their
multiple role in the society. Women participation in income generating
activities in Mtwara Mikindani Municipality play the great role in income
generating activities that has stimulated the regional development for example
about 60 percent of women in Mtwara Mikindani Municipality as compared with men
who use their time in drinking also women face
barriers and disincentives for women to participate in the income
generating activities in particular when it is accompanied by wage and income
gaps, therefore consider moving towards a more neutral tax-benefit system that
does not create disincentives to work for one of the household’s earners (URT,
2010). For substantive gender equality at work to be achieved, it is essential
that societies recognize that both women and men should have a right and
responsibility to work and care. The governments should put forward a set of
integrated policy measures, informed by international labor standards, to
recognize the role of women in income generating activities in order to reduce
and redistribute it between women and men, women should also be valued and
remunerated according to their core role for the maintenance, prosperity and
well-being of societies. Therefore women are in indispensable precondition for
the realization of a sustainable development that leaves no one behind and
ensures that the future of work is decent work.
1.3
objectives of the study
1.3.1
general objective
The general objective of this study
was to assess the women’s participation in income generating activities (IGAs)
in the study area.
1.3.2 Specific Objectives
i.
To
identify types of income generating activities (IGAs) undertaken by women in
the study area.
ii.
To
examine the extent of women’s participation in income generating activities in
the study are.
iii.
To
investigate factors
influencing the women’s participation in income generating Activities in Mtwara
Mikindani Municipality.
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