This article compares the potential for self-employment to facilitate
women's economic empowerment with traditional options for
women's economic self-sufficiency. It concludes that self-employment
programs are potentially subversive to patriarchy and the state be
cause through them, low-income women can gain independence from
male dominance in the home and the workplace and from the collective
male control of the social welfare system.
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