About this Research Topic
The development of a society has a great deal to do with the roles women take in that same society, and the empowerment and development of women’s roles impact the society itself economically, politically, culturally, and socially. In many rural areas around the world, women and girls are greatly responsible for agriculture, food security, and nutrition. Since 2020, the threat to these women’s quality of life has been aggravated due to COVID-19 and its consequences. And as such, the injustices and inequalities against rural women globally are the subject of increasingly needed attention and urgent action.
Despite a decrease in extreme poverty around the globe, there are still one billion people that live in unacceptable conditions, and a large number of those is concentrated in rural areas. Moreover, most gender development indicators tell us that rural women suffer substantially more than rural men from the effects of extreme poverty, exclusion, and climate change.
To raise awareness and prompt a call for action that will support rural women around the world, Frontiers is launching a series of Research Topics honoring the United Nations International Day of Rural Women. On this day, we reflect on the major social and economic impact of granting and sustaining access to education to all rural women and girls. By access to education, we include not only forms of traditional learning and literacy, but also non-traditional education, vocational training, technical training, agricultural extension services, information and communication technologies, etc.
In addition, by failing to provide rural women adequate education, we are contributing to the loss of women’s intellectual property due to cultural circumstance. Running alongside a sister topic in Frontiers in Education, this Frontiers in Sociology Research Topic encourages manuscripts that include (but are not limited to) the following themes:
• The role of gender in explaining social inequalities in rural areas.
• Gender as an explanatory concept
• Improvement efforts on communication for rural development.
• Rural women and girl’s wellbeing, social and political empowerment, and the matter of gender equality.
• Rural women’s property rights.
• Promotion of gender equal inheritance in law and practice.
• Women connected and not connected with rural development programs.
Despite a decrease in extreme poverty around the globe, there are still one billion people that live in unacceptable conditions, and a large number of those is concentrated in rural areas. Moreover, most gender development indicators tell us that rural women suffer substantially more than rural men from the effects of extreme poverty, exclusion, and climate change.
To raise awareness and prompt a call for action that will support rural women around the world, Frontiers is launching a series of Research Topics honoring the United Nations International Day of Rural Women. On this day, we reflect on the major social and economic impact of granting and sustaining access to education to all rural women and girls. By access to education, we include not only forms of traditional learning and literacy, but also non-traditional education, vocational training, technical training, agricultural extension services, information and communication technologies, etc.
In addition, by failing to provide rural women adequate education, we are contributing to the loss of women’s intellectual property due to cultural circumstance. Running alongside a sister topic in Frontiers in Education, this Frontiers in Sociology Research Topic encourages manuscripts that include (but are not limited to) the following themes:
• The role of gender in explaining social inequalities in rural areas.
• Gender as an explanatory concept
• Improvement efforts on communication for rural development.
• Rural women and girl’s wellbeing, social and political empowerment, and the matter of gender equality.
• Rural women’s property rights.
• Promotion of gender equal inheritance in law and practice.
• Women connected and not connected with rural development programs.
Keywords: rural women, gender disparities, women and girls in rural areas, international day of rural women, communication for rural development, rural women's property rights, gender equal inheritance rights
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