Background Quantifying women's empowerment has become the focus of attention of many
international organizations and scholars. We aimed to describe quantitative indicators of …

Measurement of women's empowerment has grown over the last few decades, but major
challenges still exist for measuring progress in dimensions based on different situational …

Women's empowerment is a multidimensional concept that encompasses different aspects
such as access to education, freedom to make vital decisions, labor market access, wages …

This paper argues that the Gender Empowerment Measure is an incomplete and biased
index on women's empowerment, which measures inequality among the most educated and …

Background: Women's status and empowerment influence health, nutrition, and
socioeconomic status of women and their children. Despite its benefits, however, research …

The empowerment of women has been widely acknowledged as an important goal in
international development. But the meanings and terminologies associated with this concept …

Since Kabeer's insightful and influential article in 1999, the research in the field of women
studies from the perspectives of women's empowerment has gained immense significance …

Women's empowerment is an intrinsic human rights goal that has implications for the health
and well-being of women and their children. Poor measurement hampers current research …

This literature review starts out by discussing the relevancy of women's empowerment as an
approach to address gender inequality in societies. It then goes on to illustrate three strong …

Most interventions promoting women's empowerment focus on the economic dimension.
Economic improvement is supposed to lead automatically to improvements in other …