Women' Empowerment to Support Household Income at Pulau Tuba, Langkawi

Noorul Huda Sahari , Baterah Alias , Suliah Mohd Aris , Zakiah Samori , Nur Hafizah Harun

Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35609/gcbssproceeding.2021.12(106)

ABSTRACT


Women with careers nowadays play an important role in their household income to support breadwinner husbands in easing the financial burden of families. To achieve the role, women are empowered to be independent and not too dependent on others by handing over the duty to generate a family income solely to their husbands. With low physical, financial, and human capital, and limited social and economic networks in Pulau Tuba, Langkawi when the socio-economy activities of its majority Muslim population are depending on agriculture, aquaculture, and tourism, the activities should be expanded to potential activities to increase family income since the island is well known with its natural resources. Women on the island also identify less participate in increasing the family income. Thus, this study aims to identify the potential activities for women of Pulau Tuba for family income upgrading and also to study factors that contribute to the empowerment of women for the success of the activities.


Keywords: Household Income, Family, Pulau Tuba, Women, Women Empowerment

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