Relationality and Economic Empowerment: The Role of Men in Supporting and Undermining Women’s Pathways
通过巴布亚新几内亚三个女性商业成功案例，揭示男性在支持或削弱女性经济机会中的关键作用，强调赋权需关注关系性和意识变化，对性别与发展研究有参考价值。
Within development projects, empowerment is often construed in narrow terms, and increasingly in relation to economic empowerment. Feminist scholars have recently argued the need to bring back a more encompassing view of empowerment, which pays greater attention to relationality and changes in consciousness. In this article, we focus on one aspect of relationality – women’s relationships with men. Drawing on three case studies of women’s business success in Papua New Guinea, we argue men are pivotal in supporting and undermining women’s economic opportunities. Offering support to recent work on women’s empowerment which emphasizes both women’s relationships with men, and the specificity of contexts into account, our article contributes to current debates in gender and development.