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Measuring Women’s Sense of Control and Efficacy

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-15T15:35:11Z
dc.date.available2021-09-15T15:35:11Z
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.description.abstractIncreasing women’s sense of control over their lives is key to reducing gender inequalities and improving development outcomes. Research suggests women tend to believe less in their abilities to act effectively towards their goals and they provide more importance than men to external factors determining their life events. Understanding the degree to which women perceive control over their lives is critical for designing and adapting policies to change limiting local norms. Social expectations about women’s unpaid care roles impose severe constraints on women’s well-being and livelihoods and are, thus, integrally linked to women’s agency. Yet, this linkage is not well defined in recent measures of women’s empowerment, which tend to incorporate time use only in terms of time poverty or having an excessive workload. This brief summarizes existing knowledge gaps in the three key measurement areas and lays out how the measures for advancing gender equality (MAGNET) initiative plans to tackle them.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/904181631077189671/Measuring-Women-s-Sense-of-Control-and-Efficacy
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/36273
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/36273
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGENDER INNOVATION LAB
dc.subjectAFRICA GENDER POLICY
dc.subjectWOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectWOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
dc.subjectWOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectWOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS
dc.subjectWOMEN AND AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectGENDER INEQUALITY
dc.subjectMAGNET
dc.subjectWOMEN'S AGENCY
dc.titleMeasuring Women’s Sense of Control and Efficacyen
dc.typeBriefen
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dc.typeResumenes
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okr.date.disclosure2021-09-08
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-29T09:45:00.305241Z
okr.date.lastmodified2021-09-09T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Brief
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/904181631077189671/Measuring-Women-s-Sense-of-Control-and-Efficacy
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/904181631077189671/pdf/Measuring-Women-s-Sense-of-Control-and-Efficacy.pdfen
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Social Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Social Policy
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicSocial Development::Social Policy
okr.unitGender Impact Evaluation (AFEGI)
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