Analyzing the lived experience of Kerman women from empowerment

Alinejad, Manouchehr; Gasemzadeh, Zahra; Afrasiabi, Hosein; Bostani, Daryoush

doi:10.22054/rjsw.2023.70585.630

Analyzing the lived experience of Kerman women from empowerment

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

manouchehr alinejad ¹

zahra gasemzadeh ²

hosein afrasiabi ³

daryoush bostani ⁴

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Social Planning and Cooperation, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yazd University. Yazd. Iran

² PhD student of sociology of Iranian social issues. Faculty of Social Sciences, Yazd University. Yazd. Iran

³ Member of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

⁴ member of kerman university

https://doi.org/10.22054/rjsw.2023.70585.630

Abstract

Empowerment refers to a process in which women have access to material and non-material resources and can influence their lives, choices and abilities. Empowerment has two dimensions, static and dynamic, and agency has an important effect in this process. In other words, empowerment includes three concepts of agency, processes/achievements and results. Empowerment has various economic, social, educational, personal and psychological dimensions and occurs when women can challenge the existing norms and culture and improve their lives. The above research was conducted with the aim of understanding the lived experiences of Kerman women of empowerment with the phenomenological method. In this research, interviews were conducted with 13 women who participated in the empowerment projects of Kerman, and these women were mainly people who were somehow involved in poverty and economic issues, and the text of the interviews after implementation in the software. Max Kyuda was coded, and finally 14 themes were extracted, which are: paradox of the big other, lack of cost in the predicted profession, failure of financial empowerment, perception of skill improvement, emergence of hope, feeling of being seen, equality and mutual respect, melting horizon. effective learning experience, synergy, enthusiasm for group activity, work as leisure, perception of incompleteness and discontinuity, perception of weak organization.

Keywords

"Empowerment"

"phenomenology"

"lived experience"

"women"

"Kerman"

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