The past decade has seen increased attention to measuring women's empowerment and autonomy, motivated by the goal of identifying promising programs and policies for reducing gender inequalities. One of the most common quantitative indicators of women's empowerment is the self-reported ability to...

This paper discusses the challenges associated with collecting time-use data in developing countries. The paper suggests potential solutions, concentrating on the two most common time-use methods used in development settings: stylized questions and time diaries. The paper identifies a...

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 aims to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls,” and gender-specific aspects are embedded in several other SDGs. However, routine national data collection to produce gender data for SDG monitoring and other purposes is limited. Within...