Female empowerment

Female Soccer, Male Legacy and Women's Empowerment

This paper investigates whether male soccer tradition can predict the success of female soccer. Different from the existing literature, this paper utilizes panel data covering 175 countries during the 1991-2011 period, capturing country heterogeneity effects and time trends. An instrumental variable approach is further employed in order to identify causal relation. My findings do not support th...

Birth Control and Female Empowerment: An Equilibrium Analysis1

It has been widely argued that innovations in birth control technology during the last decades have affected not only women’s fertility choices, but generally their position in families and society. We analyze, from a theoretical perspective, the impact of these innovations on the intrahousehold allocation of resources. We consider a model of frictionless matching on the marriage market in whic...

Gender empowerment and female-to-male smoking prevalence ratios.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether in countries with high gender empowerment the female-to-male smoking prevalence ratio is also higher. METHODS Bivariate and multiple regression analyses were performed to explore the relation between the United Nations Development Programme's gender empowerment measure (GEM) and the female-to-male smoking prevalence ratio (calculated from the 2008 WHO global tob...

Empowerment, Says Who? A study of the impact of participation in ASA microcredit programs on perceived empowerment of female borrowers

Women's empowerment and the intention to continue the practice of female genital cutting in Egypt.

BACKGROUND The study aimed to (dis)prove the association of the level of women's empowerment with their future intention to perpetuate female genital cutting for their daughters. METHODS In a national representative community-based sample of 14,393 currently-married women in Egypt, the level of empowerment, intention to continue the practice, and other socio- demographic variables were collec...