{"id":109,"date":"2022-09-06T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/geseguide\/?p=109"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:42:42","slug":"practice-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/geseguide\/practice-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice 4: Power to control their own lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>What did social enterprises do to expand women\u2019s&nbsp; control their own lives, both within and outside the home<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Participation in social enterprise decision making<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social enterprises provide women beneficiaries with opportunities to participate in and contribute to organisational decision-making process. As one of the women beneficiaries explained, it was very empowering for her to experience this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cI came in, it was interesting because I thought, well I am just volunteering for a few hours a week. I expected to just be in the corner doing something around that, but they value my opinion, which I didn\u2019t even think they\u2019d listen to my opinion, let alone value it.\u201d<\/em> (Social Enterprise 1, Women Beneficiary 1).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Making a pledge<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social enterprises invited the women to make a pledge to take responsibility for their lives and take ownership of their actions. Making a pledge creates an incentive for the women to create a plan and takethe first step towards the goals they set for themselves, such as getting a job, finding a better position or meeting more people breaking the cycle of loneliness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s empowering them and it\u2019s bringing them to action for themselves. To feel good about themselves\u201d<\/em> (Social Enterprise 1).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Opportunities to work in \u2018male occupations\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One social enterprise reported,<em> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cThe main challenge was educating the industry [construction] about the need to look to different places for recruitment and open up their workforce to be more diverse and inclusive\u201d<\/em> (Social Enterprise 5).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to address this, they do advocacy work, organise learning workshops and programmes around equality, equity, diversity and inclusion to educate \u2018male dominated industries\u2019 to be more open to recruiting women and to address their own biases and prejudices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did social enterprises do to expand women\u2019s&nbsp; control their own lives, both within and outside the home? 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