Gender Empowerment Index: a choice of progress or perfection.
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The survey-based women’s empowerment index, SWPER, was developed from a series of items in the Demographic and Health Survey from 34 African countries using principal component analysis and validated by assessing associations between its components and important maternal and child health interventions at the individual level, and analysing its correlations with the Gender Development Index at the country level.About:
This article is published in The Lancet Global Health.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Index (economics).read more
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Women’s empowerment in East Africa: Development of a cross-country comparable measure
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda to test factor structure and measurement invariance of women's empowerment among married women ages 15-49.
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Organising Concepts of 'Women's Empowerment' for Measurement: A Typology.
TL;DR: It is argued that researchers and practitioners measuring this concept may benefit from making explicit their theory-, fact- and value-based assumptions about women’s empowerment before settling on a single primary measure for their particularly context, and alternative indicators can subsequently be used as sensitivity measures that not only measure sensitivity to assumptions about girls’ social reality, but also to investigators' own values.
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SWPER Global: A survey-based women's empowerment index expanded from Africa to all low- and middle-income countries.
Fernanda Ewerling,Anita Raj,Cesar G. Victora,Franciele Hellwig,Carolina de Vargas Nunes Coll,Aluísio J D Barros +5 more
TL;DR: The indicator proposed, named SWPER Global, is a suitable common measure of women’s empowerment for LMICs, addressing the need for a single consistent survey-based indicator of women´s empowerment that allows for tracking of progress over time and across countries at the individual and country levels.
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SWPER Global: A survey-based women's empowerment index expanded from Africa to all low- and middle-income countries
Fernanda Ewerling,Anita Raj,Cesar G. Victora,Franciele Hellwig,Carolina de Vargas Nunes Coll,Aluísio J D Barros +5 more
TL;DR: The indicator proposed, named SWPER Global, is a suitable common measure of women's empowerment for LMICs, addressing the need for a single consistent survey-based indicator of women’s empowerment that allows for tracking of progress over time and across countries at the individual and country levels.
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High Rates of Suicide and Violence in the Lives of Girls and Young Women in Bangladesh: Issues for Feminist Intervention
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of 24 studies on suicide and suicidal behaviors in Bangladesh has shown that suicide death rates are exceptionally high in younger women, at a rate of about 20 per 100,000, more than twice the rate in males aged less than 49.
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Economic Status, Education and Empowerment: Implications for Maternal Health Service Utilization in Developing Countries
TL;DR: Efforts to expand maternal health service utilization can be accelerated by parallel investments in programs aimed at poverty eradication, universal primary education, and women's empowerment.
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Between affiliation and autonomy: navigating pathways of women's empowerment and gender justice in rural Bangladesh.
TL;DR: Examination of processes of empowerment as they play out in the lives of women associated with social mobilization organizations in the specific context of rural Bangladesh concludes that while the value attached to social affiliations by the women in the study is clearly a product of the societies in which they have grown up, it may be no more context-specific than the apparently universal value attach to individual autonomy by many feminists.
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The SWPER index for women's empowerment in Africa: development and validation of an index based on survey data.
Fernanda Ewerling,John Lynch,John Lynch,Cesar G. Victora,Anouka van Eerdewijk,Marcelo Tyszler,Aluísio J D Barros +6 more
TL;DR: The index, named Survey-based Women's emPowERment index (SWPER), has potential to widen the research on women's empowerment and to give a better estimate of its effect on health interventions and outcomes.
A focus on gender: collected papers on gender using DHS data
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a collection of six working papers on the dynamics of gender in developing countries, which were prepared by researchers recognized for their work in the areas of demography, reproductive health, and gender.