Paper Info
Title
Digital Financial Needs of Micro-entrepreneur Women in Pakistan - Is Mobile Money The Answer?
Abstract
This paper studies the use of Digital Financial Services (DFS) as a solution to women's financial inclusion in deeply patriarchal, resource constrained communities. Through a qualitative, empirical study we map the financial life cycles of 20 women micro-entrepreneurs in different cities in Pakistan and the challenges they face. We explore how technology is currently influencing these women's businesses and personal lives and reveal how mobile money is not tuned to the problems they face and their financial needs. We present alternate design directions for meeting the technological and financial needs of these women, circumnavigating the patriarchal structures that constrain them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3290605.3300490
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
dfs, financial inclusion, gender, low-resource, women
Mobile payment,Computer science,Financial services,Finance,Empirical research,Financial inclusion
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5970-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maryam Mustafa131.79
Noor Mazhar200.34
Ayesha Asghar300.68
Maryem Zafar Usmani400.68
Lubna Razaq522.48
Richard Anderson61112.56