Measuring 'empowerment' using quantitative household survey data
This article was published in Women's Studies International Forum [ © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. ] and the definite version is available at: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.11.009 The Article's website is at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539513002094
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10361-66842022-02-10T09:49:18Z Measuring 'empowerment' using quantitative household survey data Mahmud,Simeen Tasneem, Sakiba BRAC Institute of Governance and Development Capacity building Household survey Womens status This article was published in Women's Studies International Forum [ © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. ] and the definite version is available at: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.11.009 The Article's website is at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539513002094 For poor women paid work is not simply a pathway out of poverty, but has more deeper transformative potential, including both internal transformation (changes in women's personal and political consciousness and agency as citizens) and external transformation (changes in women's social position). Hence, measurement of women's empowerment requires identifying appropriate qualitative indicators to capture these dynamic processes of change that are not all observable. We were faced with two crucial measurement challenges: first, to estimate the magnitude and nature of women's paid work that is often unrecognized, and second, to assess a transformative process like women's empowerment. The paper describes the methods used for enumerating women's economic activity and measuring women's empowerment in the context of Bangladesh, using quantitative indicators estimated from a large household survey. Our experience suggests that to capture women's work adequately interviewer bias due to social perception of work can be minimized through training and capacity building and careful wording of questions that have been pretested. In addition, to gain a more nuanced understanding of the impact of paid work on the process of women's empowerment we included several new indicators for assessing various dimensions of empowerment that have been examined widely in the literature. Published 2016-11-02T10:15:43Z 2016-11-02T10:15:43Z 2014 Article Mahmud, S., & Tasneem, S. (2014). Measuring 'empowerment' using quantitative household survey data. Women's Studies International Forum, 45, 90-97. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2013.11.009 2775395 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/6684 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.11.009 en http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539513002094 © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Elsevier Ltd |
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This article was published in Women's Studies International Forum [ © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. ] and the definite version is available at: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.11.009 The Article's website is at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539513002094 |
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