Measuring Women’s Empowerment

Conceptualizing and Measuring Women’s Empowerment as a Variable in International Development

Measuring Gender and Women’s Empowerment Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Measuring Women’s Empowerment as a Variable in International Development

Pathways of Empowerment: Bodily Integrity and Women’s Empowerment

This paper seeks to provide an input towards developing the proposal for the research project, “Pathways of Women’s Empowerment” to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment where and when it occurs. It primarily attempts to give an overview of the trends in research, thinking and programmes in Pakistan from 1975 onwards in the area of women’s empowerment and bodily integrity in order...

The Role of Women’s Empowerment and Domestic Violence in Child Growth and Undernutrition in a Tribal and Rural Community in South India

Moderate undernutrition continues to affect 46 per cent of children under 5 years of age and 47 per cent of rural women in India. Women’s lack of empowerment is believed to be an important factor in the persistent prevalence of undernutrition. In India, women’s empowerment often varies by community, with tribes sometimes being the most progressive. This paper explores the relationship between w...