Solution for Women’s Welfare

According to the Wiley Online Library article, Female Autonomy and Women’s Welfare: An Introduction: Acknowledging the potential gains that could accrue from increased female autonomy, we need a better understanding of how changes in local contexts and environments alter women’s autonomy, welfare, and decision‐making. While we know from existing literature that improved labor market opportunities for women as well as political gender quotas have led to improvements in a host of outcomes such as education, work, marriage, and aspirations (e.g., Beaman, Chattopadhyay, Duflo, Pande, & Topalova, 2012; Bhalotra, Clarke, Gomes, & Venkataramani, 2018; Heath & Mobarak, 2015; Jensen, 2012; Pande & Ford, 2011), there is room to learn more about possible empowerment effects arising from different types of natural or policy‐driven changes. So, what can we do to help?

In every society, says Sadhguru, the struggles facing women are different. Rather than waiting for a common fix from global leaders, he says, we must handle the issues at a local level: get involved and create an ecosystem for a healthy society.