Improving women's agency, namely their ability to define goals and act on them, is crucial for advancing gender … equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial … -- provide a fragmented understanding of the constraints women face in exercising their agency, restricting the design of quality …

and identifies several factors that have altered the bargaining position of men and women over the last decades. It then … reviews empirical work on the contribution of men, as fathers and husbands, to the health and socioeconomic outcomes of women … focus on men rather than exclusively target women …

This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often …

older and skilled women experience an increase in employment in response to having internet access. The internet also …

literature: lower-caste women are more likely to participate in the labor market, have greater decision-making autonomy within …

This paper studies the effects of policies aimed at mitigating discrimination against women in the marketplace on the … inversely with the presence of skilled women (as agents of change) in the labor market and has a direct impact on their … presence of skilled women in the labor market, a trade-off may emerge with respect to female unemployment when anti …

Strengthening women's ownership, control, and use of land, livestock, and savings assets matters for poverty and shared … costly in lost economic output and productivity growth; and women's control over household resources and spending decisions … women in experimental settings. On livestock, the review points to a striking dearth of evidence on the causal impact of …

region, these high rates of female labor force participation mask underlying challenges for women. A large majority of … employed women work in vulnerable employment. In addition, youth unemployment rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are double those of … adult unemployment, and unemployment rates for women are higher than rates faced by men. This paper discusses the specific …