Women Empowerment in UAE: A Systematic Review
Women in the UAE have long been recognized as equal partners in national development and many efforts were taken to pursue empowering women in cultural, social, and economic fields. This systematic review is distinctive; that it synthesizes research on th
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Abstract. Women in the UAE have long been recognized as equal partners in national development and many efforts were taken to pursue empowering women in cultural, social, and economic fields. This systematic review is distinctive; that it synthesizes research on the influence of different factors affecting women leadership/entrepreneurship positions in the UAE. It aims to investigate the key factors affecting the female entrepreneurs and leaders, and to develop a conceptual model on the principal social and cultural factors inducing the success of Emirati women in attaining senior leadership roles or leading entrepreneurs. Moreover, this study proposes a set of new directions for future research venues to address the current dearth of empirical work on women’s leadership in the UAE, despite all the empowering programs and initiatives. It includes articles using quantitative and qualitative methods from different databases like ProQuest and EBSCO. The study reviews databases and selects many high-quality articles to be reviewed using a set of inclusion and exclusion criteria. 23 articles were chosen after removing the duplicated ones. From a practical perspective, this study is important while it summarizes and evaluates all factors affecting women empowering in leadership roles and tries to offer a proper model for a large number of women empowerment drivers within the UAE setting. Keywords: Women Empowerment Leadership Entrepreneurship UAE Impacts Challenges
1 Introduction Women’s empowerment has been identified with many different perspectives, concepts, interventions, and consequences. Literature offers different definitions of empowerment and it seems to be no universally accepted definition, due to the variations in the cultural context that affect how empowerment may occur. Nonetheless, much of the research agrees that Women empowerment refers to increasing the political, social, educational, or economic strength of individuals and communities of women. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 A. E. Hassanien et al. (Eds.): AISI 2020, AISC 1261, pp. 742–755, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58669-0_66
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It has become a significant topic of discussion in regards to development and economics. Nations, businesses, and communities can benefit from the implementation of programs and policies that adopt the notion of women empowerment. The United Nation outlined five key components of empowerment: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Women’s sense of self-worth Women’s right to have and to determine choices Women’s right to have access to opportunities and resources Women’s right to have the power to control their own lives, both w
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