Women Empowerment or Disempowerment?: A Case Study of a Social Microfinance’s Activities and Gender Relations in Rizal Province

• Main Author: Mesa, Héritier Raphaël
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Women’s empowerment; social entrepreneurship; gender relations; microfinance
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/socialtransformations/vol6/iss2/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/socialtransformations/article/1095/viewcontent/ST_206.2_202_20Article_20__20MESA.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Women’s empowerment has been at the center of the development discourse as one of the eight declared Millennium Development Goals. To date, an increasing number of development organizations are focusing on helping poor women achieve economic sustainability, and social enterprise in its microfinance...