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Women’s empowerment and gender equality in South Asian agriculture: Measuring progress using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) in Bangladesh and India

Peter J. Forshaw
- 01 Mar 2022 - 
- Vol. 151, pp 105396-105396
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In this paper , a project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) is used to assess empowerment impacts of agricultural development interventions in India and Bangladesh as well as broader changes in rural labor markets.
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This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2022-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Empowerment & Agriculture.

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Why do aspirations matter for empowerment?: Discrepancies between the A-WEAI domains and aspirations of ethnic minority women in Vietnam

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine how aspirations matter for women in poverty who are working in informal sectors (agriculture and tourism) in Vietnam and show that women and men achieve similar rates of adequacy in their access to resources and decision-making as measured by the abbreviated version of the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI).
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“There Is Nothing I Cannot Achieve”: Empowering Latin American Women Through Agricultural Education

TL;DR: In this paper , women from 10 Latin American countries attending an agricultural university in Latin America were asked what has been their experience at the university, including challenges and coping strategies, including determination, persistence and selfefficacy.
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The Coordination of Environmental Protection and Female Discrimination Based on the Concept of Affirmative Action

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors highlighted the role of women in environmental protection by studying the coordination of environmental protection and female discrimination based on the concept of affirmative action and found that women play a key role in improving the quality of our environment and the development of ecological civilization.
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Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the measurement of women empowerment in the context of three interrelated dimensions: resources agency, achievements, and consequences, and conclude that empowerment is defined by the structural dimensions of individual choice.
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The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

TL;DR: The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) as discussed by the authors measures empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector and comprises two subindexes: the first assesses empowerment in five domains, including (1) decisions about agricultural production, access to and decisionmaking power about productive resources, (3) control of use of income, (4) leadership in the community, and (5) time allocation.
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Development of the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI).

TL;DR: The pro-WEAI is a new tool designed to meet projects’ impact assessment needs and is decomposable into sub-indices, indicators, and by population subgroup.
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Can self-help group programs improve women’s empowerment? A systematic review

TL;DR: In this article, a mixed-methods systematic review focuses on the impact of women's self-help groups (SHGs) on women's economic, social, psychological, and political empowerment.
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