Female Empowerment of Amazonian Riverine Beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program

Abstract: Today, policies of combat to poverty prioritize women as owners in programs of income transference, among them, Bolsa Família Program. Considering that women empowerment is influenced by this social policy, this research aimed to identify the dimensions of the process of empowerment achieved by riparian women, beneficiary of the program. The research was performed at Combú Island, Belém do Pará. Four riparian mothers took part in the study. For data collection, the Sociodemographic Inventory and semi structured interviews were used. As procedure of organization of information, content analysis was used. The categories, which appeared from the beneficiary perceptions were adapted from literature and defined as economic, family, social and psychological empowerment. The results showed that after the entrance in BFP the notion of a owned income and bigger control of resources were obtained by a parcel of the participants, providing a partial economic empowerment. The befit increased t.... https://interpersona.psychopen.eu/index.php/interpersona/article/view/3511

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Female Empowerment of Amazonian Riverine Beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program ; volume:11 ; day:02 ; month:06 ; year:2017 ; Interpersona ; 11 (02.06.2017)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Thamyris Maués dos Santos ; Brenda Nunes ; Fernando Augusto Ramos Pontes ; Simone Souza da Costa Silva

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ijpr.v11isupp1.249
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101418410814001781
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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