Discovery of Women in Haiti

Empirical evidence suggests that empowering women has far reaching benefits on the lives of women, families, and the society than anticipated. Development economists have gone ahead and even prophesized that investment in women has the highest – return in the developing world. Female deprivation is both a cause and a consequence of the vicious cycle of poverty. Despite of being the instruments of change in the society, poverty hits the hardest on women in the developing world. Women's empowerment is catalytic and central to achieving enhanced development. Amartya Sen famously said “What is crucial is not just freedom of action but also freedom of thought and the ability to overcome parochial boundaries of thinking.”(Sen) Primarily, what the world needs is a change in the attitude towards women and governments across the world have a huge role to play in achieving this change.

Women in Haiti are the backbone of the informal economy. They are the real heroes or maybe in this case the ultimate heroines in the family, the society and the nation. Haiti is one of the few developing countries that has realized relatively early in the process of development, the true potential of women in enhancing economic development. (Field) Although Haitian Women are showing tremendous potential to promote growth through collective action and are establishing an identity for themselves yet Neo-liberal globalization has gendered growth in Haiti. Thus, in this global struggle there is an urgent need for government action in Haiti to provide further opportunities for women to facilitate economic development.

A meaningful development can be achieved if all the women are exposed to basic education. For a country like Haiti that is building back ...

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...tics and governance. (Bello) On account of this hostility from the society and inaction from state, women groups fail to survive. State has an active role in this regard, it should acknowledge that women are key to Haitian rebuilding and design policies that meet the needs of women labor force.

Mainstream development economists claim that investment in women may pay off eventually in the long run with high economic costs; such investments are not economically viable for a developing country with limited resources, but all evidence suggests quite the contrary. Women have an extraordinary power of being the enlightened agents of economic change; an economy that allows women to flourish and develop will henceforth emerge as a sustainable economy. Noting this relation public action and government intervention should facilitate the growth of these agents of change.