Leverage points for improving gender equality and human well-being in a smallholder farming context

摘要: How transformative processes could be facilitated to improve gender equality and consequently, human well-being, is a key question for moving towards just sustainable future. Focusing on southwestern Ethiopia where significant changes in formal institutions related have occurred, we applied the concept of systemic leverage points. We show that structures perceived visible gaps, such as increased participation women public activities. These, turn, played an enabling role community norms, (to lesser degree) triggered reconsideration perceptions about women’s capacities. Both men more equal relations being associated with better well-being at household level. Our results highlight important interactions between points equality, suggesting insights can gained by studying interactions, compared when shallow (e.g., gaps) or deeper social norms) are analyzed isolation. study also demonstrated general suitability leverage-points perspective research, including analytical frame complement approaches.