Abstract
This study is mainly focused on the role of women in economic development with the aim of assessing the roles and constraints of women in economic development of Ethiopia in general and Ambo in particular. Women in Ethiopia or anywhere else in developing countries occupy the low states in the society and their contributions has never been adequately recognized or given economic value. Moreover, women‘s roles in the economy has often been under estimated and their work in the different sectors has long been invisible. The findings are based on primary and secondary data collections from different sources. The primary data is collected through questionnaires and interview while the secondary data is collected from literature review. The result of the study indicates the significance of the role of women in economic development and the factors that make their economic roles unrecognized. The roles of women, among other things, includes saving, family planning, efficient utilization of resources, productive, reproductive, and community managing role. The role of women in economic development can be improved through gender empowerment measures and by providing women to productive resources such as credit and loan
Highlights
Women are more than half of the world population
The development of infrastructure such as road, electrification, irrigation, schools and hospitals was seen as the basis for economic growth and development
Women are excluded from participating in high income economic activities; often women lack the right to have their own property and equality of employment opportunity
Summary
Women are more than half of the world population. They are the mothers of the other half. Economic development should include material progress especially for those persons with the lowest per capital income [PCI], the eradication of mass poverty with its correlates of illiteracy and diseases It implies fundamental change in the social, political, technical, institutional frame work as well as in the structure of the economy so as to increase the productivity of capital, efficiency of labor, technical skill, level of effective demand and employment, poverty and ill- health. It is essentially an important component of development. A true economic development is the one that release all humans form all kinds of servitude [4]
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