This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were … under direct British rule, compared to their counterparts, are better off in terms of almost all measures of women …

Purpose - This paper aims to tackle an important question related to women's economic empowerment in highly patriarchal … societies like Egypt. The paper discusses individual, household, wealth and location factors determining women empowerment, as … resources and social constraints that determine women empowerment as measured by the power of women over household decisions and …

Public spending on gender equality and women's empowerment is rising rapidly in many countries. However, the unintended … consequences of women's empowerment is rarely measured and remains poorly understood. We study the impact of female empowerment … parts. First, we use an experiment to measure backlash, observing men's decisions to financially penalize women who …

The paper studies how well-being of women is impacted by the interaction of prevalent corruption levels with the forces … of globalisation. Given that corruption disproportionately affect women and girls as they generally start from low level … flows and political globalisation gets nullified by public sector corruption thereby actually reducing women's well …