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Measuring Women's Agency

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dc.contributor.authorDonald, Aletheia
dc.contributor.authorKoolwal, Gayatri
dc.contributor.authorAnnan, Jeannie
dc.contributor.authorFalb, Kathryn
dc.contributor.authorGoldstein, Markus
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-24T19:53:00Z
dc.date.available2017-08-24T19:53:00Z
dc.date.issued2017-07
dc.description.abstractImproving women's agency, namely their ability to define goals and act on them, is crucial for advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial -- provide a fragmented understanding of the constraints women face in exercising their agency, restricting the design of quality interventions and evaluation of their impact. This paper proposes a multidisciplinary framework containing the three critical dimensions of agency: goal-setting, perceived control and ability ("sense of agency"), and acting on goals. For each dimension, the paper (i) reviews existing measurement approaches and what is known about their relative quality; (ii) presents new empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa: validating vignettes as a measurement tool for goal-setting, examining gender and regional discrepancies in response to sense-of-agency measures, and investigating what information spousal disagreement over decision-making roles can provide about the intra-household process of acting on goals; and (iii) highlights priorities for future research to improve the measurement of women’s agency.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/333481500385677886/Measuring-womens-agency
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8148
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/27955
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8148
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subjectMEASUREMENT ERROR
dc.subjectGENDER EQUALITY
dc.subjectEMPOWERMENT
dc.subjectWOMEN'S AGENCY
dc.subjectAFRICA GENDER POLICY
dc.subjectGENDER INNOVATION LAB
dc.subjectWOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS
dc.titleMeasuring Women's Agencyen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
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okr.crossref.titleMeasuring Women's Agency
okr.date.disclosure2017-07-18
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/333481500385677886/Measuring-womens-agency
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8148
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum27761486
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.geographicalSub-Saharan Africa
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okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Economics
okr.topicGender::Gender and Poverty
okr.topicGender::Gender and Social Development
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Monitoring & Analysis
okr.unitGender Innovation Lab, Office of the Chief Economist, Africa Region and the the Living Standards Measurement Study, Development Data Group
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