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The Multidimensional Nature of Women's Empowerment: Beyond the Economic Approach

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Most interventions promoting women's empowerment focus on the economic dimension. Economic improvement is supposed to lead automatically to improvements in other dimensions. To test this assumption, we collected data from 508 women working in women groups in Addis Ababa. Besides the economic dimension, five other dimensions of empowerment were studied (familial, legal, psychological, political and socio‐cultural). Findings show that the relationships between these six dimensions of empowerment are weak and that the psychological dimension is most central. The economic dimension is hardly connected to other dimensions. Hence, a broad package of interventions seems needed to achieve empowerment in all respects. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Source: Journal of International Development

DOI: 10.1002/jid.3268

Authors: Fitsum W. Bayissa, Jeroen Smits, Ruerd Ruben

Institutions: Hawassa University, Radboud University Nijmegen, Wageningen University & Research

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2589756192

FWCI: 9.082

Cites: 67

Cited by: 76

Related to: 10