What is it about?
Women’s economic empowerment is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for realizing other forms of empowerment
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Why is it important?
This study finds out how central the economic dimension of women’s empowerment is, to what extent empowerment in this dimension is essential for empowerment in other dimensions.
Perspectives
This study may help developmental actors to evaluate the success of ‘income focused’ interventions of empowering women in terms of outstretching into other dimensions and to develop interventions aimed at empowering women in all dimensions.
Ms. Fitsum Bayissa
Hawassa University
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This page is a summary of: The Multidimensional Nature of Women's Empowerment: Beyond the Economic Approach, Journal of International Development, February 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/jid.3268.
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