Bernice Wadei
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernice Wadei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernice |
| FAMILY NAME | Wadei |
| SIGNATURE | WADEI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4396-2117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unequal fields
Persistent gender inequalities in access to agricultural resources undermine inclusive development in Ghana. This study advances the literature by shifting the unit of analysis from household heads to individual farm operators and by integrating Economic Constraint Theory, Intersectionality, Feminist Political Ecology, the Matthew Effect, and Inclusive Development into a unified explanatory framework. Using a concurrent triangulation mixed-method…
Green Leadership Unleashed
Using empirical data, this research aims to explore the interplay of sustainability‐driven leadership (green transformational leadership) and its influence on environmental performance. It delves into the connection between green transformational leadership, facilitated through green innovation, and its effects on employee environmental performance. Additionally, it investigates how employees' green behavior moderates this relationship within Gha…
Who controls Redd+ in West Africa
Geographers continue to analyze the politics of forest carbon offset projects, often emphasizing local-global and global North-Global South spatialities. Regional spatiality of the forest carbon economy remains largely unexplored, despite the analytical opportunities it offers. Drawing on analysis of data from ten (10) carbon offset registries, we map the uneven regional geographies of forest carbon offset projects (or REDD+ type projects) in Wes…
Balancing Work and Care
Despite growing female workforce participation, societal norms still prioritize motherhood over professional roles. This study examines how maternal employment affects children’s well-being, and challenges concerns about maternal absence. Using mixed methods, focus groups, interviews, and a survey of 400 households, the study finds that employment can enhance children’s nutrition, health, emotional development, and education. However, issues like…
I Sacrificed My Values to Fit In’
Adolescence represents a critical phase for identity formation and sexual development, yet vulnerability obfuscates these experiences, particularly for female adolescents. This paper describes how vulnerability and social pressures ‘sponsor’ sexual debut among female adolescents in cohabiting unions in Aboabo, Kumasi, Ghana. Using a narrative analysis, textual data were obtained from 12 female adolescents via interviews, centring on their sexuali…
Groundnut processing and women's economic empowerment
There is a growing recognition of the vital role that women play as the backbone of agricultural and small-scale processing activities. Women's empowerment has become central to international development, which emphasizes gender equality as both a human right and a driver of economic growth and sustainable development. This study focuses on Northern Ghana, a region with significant reliance on groundnut processing as a livelihood activity. Northe…
Addressing stigma and discrimination towards school re-entry of teenage mothers in Ghana
202505 bcch
Re-examining the links between women's work and household power dynamics
The global debate about women's productive work and its impact on household decision-making power is ongoing. In Ghana, women are involved in various productive activities alongside unpaid care work, yet their participation in household decision-making remains low. This paper emphasizes the need to unpack the household bargaining outcomes by re-evaluating the role of women's paid and unpaid care work in rural and urban contexts in Ghana. To do so…
An Overview of the Obstacles to Gender Equality Processes in Rural and Urban Ghana
The differential impact of development efforts on women and men has critically brought out the need to take a gender-transformative approach to development processes. Despite the tremendous efforts made, there persist some seemingly impossible obstacles to gender equality. The main objective of this study was to analyze the main obstacles to gender equality in Ghana in rural and urban contexts to inform policy decisions. The study employed a mixe…
Celebrity worship
In an era where celebrity influence shapes the lives of young people worldwide, understanding its impact on adolescents has never been more critical. This study explores the growing phenomenon of celebrity worship among Ghanaian adolescents by employing an exploratory research design. Primary data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 12 adolescents who were conveniently sampled. Interpretative phenomenological analysis approach …
Domestic conflict as a possible outcome of gender role change
The patriarchal power system that dominates most societies creates an inherent conflict. With the recent gender-transformative drives however, the capacity of most women has been strengthened, through access to education and paid work, enabling them to have access to and control over certain resources and power they were previously denied. This new resource and power redistribution within the household is often assumed to have the potential to cr…
Do the Right Thing the Right Way! How Ethical Leaders Increase Employees Creative Performance
This study presents a moderated mediation model of leadership influences by examining the effects of ethical leadership on employee creative performance, using data from 342 employees matched with their supervisors in small and medium organizations in Ghana. The study revealed that creative self-efficacy mediated the positive relationship between ethical leadership and employee creative performance from the SPSS macro-PROCESS analysis. Additional…
An Overview of the Obstacles to Gender Equality Processes in Rural and Urban Ghana
The differential impact of development efforts on women and men has critically brought out the need to take a gender-transformative approach to development processes. Despite the tremendous efforts made, there persist some seemingly impossible obstacles to gender equality. The main objective of this study was to analyze the main obstacles to gender equality in Ghana in rural and urban contexts to inform policy decisions. The study employed a mixe…
Domestic conflict as a possible outcome of gender role change
The patriarchal power system that dominates most societies creates an inherent conflict. With the recent gender-transformative drives however, the capacity of most women has been strengthened, through access to education and paid work, enabling them to have access to and control over certain resources and power they were previously denied. This new resource and power redistribution within the household is often assumed to have the potential to cr…
Do the Right Thing the Right Way! How Ethical Leaders Increase Employees Creative Performance
This study presents a moderated mediation model of leadership influences by examining the effects of ethical leadership on employee creative performance, using data from 342 employees matched with their supervisors in small and medium organizations in Ghana. The study revealed that creative self-efficacy mediated the positive relationship between ethical leadership and employee creative performance from the SPSS macro-PROCESS analysis. Additional…
Celebrity worship
In an era where celebrity influence shapes the lives of young people worldwide, understanding its impact on adolescents has never been more critical. This study explores the growing phenomenon of celebrity worship among Ghanaian adolescents by employing an exploratory research design. Primary data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 12 adolescents who were conveniently sampled. Interpretative phenomenological analysis approach …
Groundnut processing and women's economic empowerment
There is a growing recognition of the vital role that women play as the backbone of agricultural and small-scale processing activities. Women's empowerment has become central to international development, which emphasizes gender equality as both a human right and a driver of economic growth and sustainable development. This study focuses on Northern Ghana, a region with significant reliance on groundnut processing as a livelihood activity. Northe…
Addressing stigma and discrimination towards school re-entry of teenage mothers in Ghana
202505 bcch
Re-examining the links between women's work and household power dynamics
The global debate about women's productive work and its impact on household decision-making power is ongoing. In Ghana, women are involved in various productive activities alongside unpaid care work, yet their participation in household decision-making remains low. This paper emphasizes the need to unpack the household bargaining outcomes by re-evaluating the role of women's paid and unpaid care work in rural and urban contexts in Ghana. To do so…
An Overview of the Obstacles to Gender Equality Processes in Rural and Urban Ghana
The differential impact of development efforts on women and men has critically brought out the need to take a gender-transformative approach to development processes. Despite the tremendous efforts made, there persist some seemingly impossible obstacles to gender equality. The main objective of this study was to analyze the main obstacles to gender equality in Ghana in rural and urban contexts to inform policy decisions. The study employed a mixe…
Unequal fields
Persistent gender inequalities in access to agricultural resources undermine inclusive development in Ghana. This study advances the literature by shifting the unit of analysis from household heads to individual farm operators and by integrating Economic Constraint Theory, Intersectionality, Feminist Political Ecology, the Matthew Effect, and Inclusive Development into a unified explanatory framework. Using a concurrent triangulation mixed-method…
Green Leadership Unleashed
Using empirical data, this research aims to explore the interplay of sustainability‐driven leadership (green transformational leadership) and its influence on environmental performance. It delves into the connection between green transformational leadership, facilitated through green innovation, and its effects on employee environmental performance. Additionally, it investigates how employees' green behavior moderates this relationship within Gha…
Who controls Redd+ in West Africa
Geographers continue to analyze the politics of forest carbon offset projects, often emphasizing local-global and global North-Global South spatialities. Regional spatiality of the forest carbon economy remains largely unexplored, despite the analytical opportunities it offers. Drawing on analysis of data from ten (10) carbon offset registries, we map the uneven regional geographies of forest carbon offset projects (or REDD+ type projects) in Wes…
Balancing Work and Care
Despite growing female workforce participation, societal norms still prioritize motherhood over professional roles. This study examines how maternal employment affects children’s well-being, and challenges concerns about maternal absence. Using mixed methods, focus groups, interviews, and a survey of 400 households, the study finds that employment can enhance children’s nutrition, health, emotional development, and education. However, issues like…
I Sacrificed My Values to Fit In’
Adolescence represents a critical phase for identity formation and sexual development, yet vulnerability obfuscates these experiences, particularly for female adolescents. This paper describes how vulnerability and social pressures ‘sponsor’ sexual debut among female adolescents in cohabiting unions in Aboabo, Kumasi, Ghana. Using a narrative analysis, textual data were obtained from 12 female adolescents via interviews, centring on their sexuali…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Socioeconomics (3 works)