Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

The role of women in economic development and the global environment is vital for progressing them towards United Nations sustainable goal (SDG-5) that emphasized need to empower every walk life. study examines women’s autonomy agenda under China’s open innovation system from 1975 2019. employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, vector (VAR) Granger causality, accounting matrix estimate parameters. existing data are summarized collated context China explain as a correlational study. results show moderated with technology spills over decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions substantiate hump-shaped relationship between them. increased spending on research (R&D) activities, patent publications, renewable energy consumption empowers be equipped latest technologies improve environmental quality. pollution haven hypothesis verifies given country, where trade liberalization policies tend increase polluting industries set up their plants engaged dirty production exacerbate GHG emissions. causality estimates confirmed technological innovations leads autonomy. In contrast, females’ share labor force participation rate consumption. Thus, it evident there positive country’s development.