This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women … Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories are …

zones can serve as vehicle for women's economic empowerment. After analyzing the theory through a labor and women's rights … lens, the working paper guardedly concludes that EPZs and SEZs might serve as a vehicle for women's economic empowerment … with workers, representative trade unions and women's rights organizations …

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double … difference analysis using data surrounding the period.We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …

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 …

Using data from the 2008 National Demographic and Health Survey, we ask whether women's economic empowerment -defined … women against domestic violence. Using a simple model of choice of conflict resolution technology among spouses, we find … evidence that economic empowerment protects women in a non-linear way. Low and high levels of empowerment reduce the likelihood …

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 …

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous … setting. Women in British territories benefited from a universal education system and gained opportunities for paid employment …

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 …

Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path … productive assets to increase women's empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention increases … women's access to resources and agency by a substantial amount. In contrast, a behavior change intervention (training …

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 …