Exploring Women’s Agency and Empowerment in Developing Countries: Where Do We Stand?

doi:10.1080/13545701.2015.1091087

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Exploring Women’s Agency and Empowerment in Developing Countries: Where Do We Stand?

dc.contributor.author	Hanmer, Lucia
dc.contributor.author	Klugman, Jeni
dc.date.accessioned	2015-12-28T23:27:14Z
dc.date.available	2015-12-28T23:27:14Z
dc.date.issued	2015-10-27
dc.description.abstract	While central notions around agency are well established in academic literature, progress on the empirical front has faced major challenges around developing tractable measures and data availability. This has limited our understanding about patterns of agency and empowerment of women across countries. Measuring key dimensions of women's agency and empowerment is complex, but feasible and important. This paper systematically explores what can be learned from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data for fifty-eight countries, representing almost 80 percent of the female population of developing countries. It is the first such empirical investigation. The findings quantify some important correlations. Completing secondary education and beyond has consistently large positive associations, underlining the importance of going beyond primary schooling. There appear to be positive links with poverty reduction and economic growth, but clearly this alone is not enough. Context specificity and multidimensionality mean that the interpretation of results is not always straightforward.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Feminist Economics
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/23536
dc.identifier.issn	1354-5701
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/23536
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	empowerment
dc.subject	secondary education
dc.subject	gender disparities
dc.title	Exploring Women’s Agency and Empowerment in Developing Countries	en
dc.title.subtitle	Where Do We Stand?	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2017-04-27
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T10:54:06.908324Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.identifier.doi	10.1080/13545701.2015.1091087
okr.identifier.report	102518
okr.journal.nbpages	237-63
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2015.1091087
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Development
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Education
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Demographics
okr.topic	Education::Secondary Education
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.volume	22(1)
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