Development of a Survey-based Women Empowerment Index for Afghanistan (SWEIA): An Explanatory Analyses of the Afghanistan Demographic Health Survey 2015

O Dadras - 2022 - researchsquare.com
Background Although there are several scales to measure women empowerment, the
multidimensionality of women empowerment introduced enormous challenges in the …

Survey-based women empowerment index for Afghanistan (SWEI-A): an explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses

O Dadras, M Hazratzai - Social Indicators Research, 2023 - Springer
This study aimed to develop a country-specific index to measure women empowerment
among married women aged 15–49 years in Afghanistan. The data from the 2015 …

The individual-and community-level women's empowerment and utilization of maternity care services in Afghanistan: a multilevel cross-validation study

O Dadras - International Health, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background This study aimed to explore the relationship between women's empowerment
and utilization of maternity care for married Afghan women aged 15–49 y in Afghanistan …

Measuring women's Empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the demographic and health surveys

IO Asaolu, H Alaofè, JKL Gunn, AK Adu… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Background: Women's status and empowerment influence health, nutrition, and
socioeconomic status of women and their children. Despite its benefits, however, research …

Women empowerment and access to maternity and reproductive healthcare in Pakistan: cross-validation of a Survey-based Index in Afghanistan (SWEI-A)

O Dadras, M Dadras, L Jafari, T Nakayama… - BMC women's health, 2022 - Springer
Background Despite the obvious violation of women's rights in Pakistan and the vital
necessity for women empowerment, a unified country-specific index measuring women …

The Female Empowerment Index (FEMI): spatial and temporal variation in women's empowerment in Nigeria

EM Rettig, SE Fick, RJ Hijmans - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Improving female empowerment is an important human rights and development goal that
needs better monitoring. A number of indices have been developed to track female …

[HTML][HTML] Women's empowerment in East Africa: Development of a cross-country comparable measure

SS Miedema, R Haardörfer, AW Girard, KM Yount - World development, 2018 - Elsevier
Women's empowerment is an indicator of social change and a priority of the Sustainable
Development Goals. Debate continues on what domains constitute women's empowerment …

[HTML][HTML] Women's Empowerment and Associated Factors in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A Secondary Data Analysis of the Performance Monitoring …

A Makongote, B Mbunga, P Akilimali… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Empowering women and promoting gender equality is crucial for accelerating sustainable
development in fragile countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) …

Development of a women's empowerment index for Tanzania from the demographic and health surveys of 2004–05, 2010, and 2015–16

AE Mganga, J Renju, J Todd, MJ Mahande… - Emerging themes in …, 2021 - Springer
Background Women's empowerment is a multidimensional construct which varies by
context. These variations make it challenging to have a concrete definition that can be …

Refining the conceptualization and measurement of women's empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa using data from the 2013 Nigerian demographic and health survey

P Pratley, JF Sandberg - Social Indicators Research, 2018 - Springer
The measurement of women's empowerment has long eluded academics and practitioners
alike. A key challenge relates to the way researchers construct measures of empowerment …