,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …, particularly for female-headed households. Women continue to bear a greater burden of responsibility for income …

techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences …

findings of a multi-country research programme, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', to explore pathways of positive change in … women's lives, in diverse contexts, and to draw together some lessons for policy and practice. It begins with an account of … women's empowerment in development, tracing some key ideas that have shaped feminist engagement with empowerment in theory …

Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on … women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. We use panel data … planning and reproductive health. The econometric results suggest that official development assistance ... to women' equality …

, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is … uncounted in the current System of National Accounts definition of labour. However, women still undertake less paid work than …

This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents …, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … rebel groups, emphasizing how women operate within the command structure. While there is a growing trend in assessing the …

In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning …

-headed households in contracts, and at the impact of establishing a contract on a set of intra-household women empowerment indicators … effect on control over land, but a negative effect on women's access to extension services. …