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Measurement of Women’s Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh
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SUMMARY Women’s empowerment is a dynamic process that has been quantified, measured and described in a variety of ways. We measure empowerment in a sample of 3500 rural women in 128 villages of Bangladesh with five indicators. A conceptual framework is presented, together with descriptive data on the indicators. Linear regressions to examine effects of covariates show that a woman’s exposure to television is a significant predictor of three of the five indicators. A woman’s years of schooling is significantly associated with one of two self-esteem indicators and with freedom of mobility. Household wealth has a significant and positive association with a woman’s resource control but a significant negative association with her total decision-making score.
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- Authors
- Mahmud, S., Shah, N. M., & Becker, S.
- Venue
- World Development
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-03
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 610-619
- ISSN
- 0305-750X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1984076033
- Cited by
- 358
- References
- 29
- FWCI
- 18.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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