Measuring Women's Empowerment as a Variable in International Development

By A. Malhotra, S. Schuler. 2002

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Empowering Women Through Financial Inclusion: A Study of Urban Slum (2019, positive): “…the results of financial inclusion and political empowerment (Basu, 2006; Bhattacharyya, 2019; Hashemi, Schuler, & Riley, 1996; Kabeer, 1999; Malhotra & Schuler, 2005) and economic empowerment (Datta & Sahu, 2017; Bayulgen, 2015; Hashemi et al., 1996; Kabeer, 1999) are consistent with the…”
On Norms and Agency: Conversations about Gender Equality with Women and Men in 20 Countries (2013, background): “As Malhotra et al. (2002) note, being able to decide what to cook—while not equivalent to having the power to make decisions about children’s schooling, health, or marriage—when aggregated with other small decisions may provide useful insights on intrahousehold decisionmaking processes.”
Measuring Women’s Empowerment: A Critical Review of Current Practices and Recommendations for Researchers (2017, background): “First, women’s empowerment is separate from the empowerment of other disadvantaged groups due to issues specific to women, such as household and familial dynamics (Malhotra and Schuler 2005) and the power relations between men and women (Mosedale 2005).”
Empowerment of Rural Women in Bangladesh: A Household Level Analysis (2004, background): “This study was conceptualised considering basically three important dimensions of women’s empowerment (following Malhotra et al., 2002: 13 ).”
Empowering Women through Microfinance: Evidence from Tanzania (2013, methodology): “Drawing from Malhotra and Schuler (2005) and Chen (1997) the most used indicators of women empowerment in different studies are control over savings and income (Goetz & Gupta, 1996; Pitt et al., 2006); ownership of assets (Barnes et al., 2001b; Garikipati, 2008); decision-making (Hashemi &…”
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (2013, positive): “…of the agricultural sector, whereas many agriculture-related indicators are gender-blind, there is a clear need for a tool to measure and monitor the impact of agricultural interventions on empowerment of women within the agricultural sector (Kishor & Subaiya, 2008; Malhotra & Schuler, 2005).”
Women's Perceived Empowerment in Entrepreneurial Efforts: The Role of Bricolage and Psychological Capital (2019, background): “…on a number of dimensions including economic, sociocultural, family/ interpersonal, legal, political, and psychological aspects of their lives (Malhotra and Schuler 2005), and that a woman may be empowered in some areas of her life, but not in others (Hashemi, Schuler, and Riley 1996;…”
Women’s Empowerment and Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India (2014, background): “Women’s empowerment can be conceptualised as the power to make choices (Kabeer, 1994, 1999; Malhotra et al, 2002) or the women’s ability to access the components of quality of life (Duflo, 2012) or as “women’s relative position or exercise of power within the gender system” 3 (Williams, 2005, p.7).”