-being. Therefore, a review of southern Africa’s performance regarding progress towards gender equality cannot just be about the degree … to which women are now represented in decision-making. Rather, the process of enhancing women’s status is inseparable … women’s representation. Specifically, the paper examines what women’s struggle for political space has added to the …

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … association with women's empowerment while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriage were negatively …

While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human … exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …