Economic Independence of Women is Important (Duh)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Trusted Clothes (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016
One of the major parts of women’s rights, empowerment of women, and international women’s rights comes from knowledge to the individuals, the women – and men too (in an inclusive, humanistic, and respectful way), and each of these areas from NGOs, companies, and campaigning in labor rights organizations.
NGOs are non-governmental organizations that can work on the behalf of women in the garment industry or for international women’s rights in general. Companies can implement working conditions and pay that is adequate to the task.
And campaigning and labor rights organizations can focus on the specifics of day-to-day work life for women throughout the developing world, even in the developed world. NGOs, for instance, can focus on women’s access to decent and well-paid work in addition to redistribution of unpaid care.
Unpaid care can mean things like gender responsive public services. Men don’t give birth. Women tend to choose to have children. That takes time from work, and possible career advancement – if the job implies it.
Look at poor urban or peri-urban areas in Ghana or South Africa, even India, the raising of consciousness, raising awareness about sexual and reproductive health rights is important, too.
If you educate individual women or groups of women in these areas, word-of-mouth can be another way for further education through community organizing from the information acquired from NGOs.
One of the benefits of NGOs and companies and labor rights organizations that work towards international women’s rights with the empowerment of women is that there will end up being less gender inequality and sexual discrimination.
If you can provide women with some means of earning money that can allow them to be not economically dependent upon men, or just economically independent, it can permit them to be able to freely associate and freely work as they see fit, and allow them to likely have less violence or to be able to leave conditions of violence because they have the funds to do so.
That is also related to being economically dependent upon either some company or a possible partner. Other things that can be put into the workplace, for instance, or in the local area, can be things like anti-harassment telephone helplines that can help provide backup for women. This can be safe and secure and the people that are on the other side of the line can be knowledgeable and help women in poor conditions.
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