[HTML][HTML] Measuring women's empowerment in agriculture: Innovations and evidence

A Quisumbing, S Cole, M Elias, S Faas, A Galiè… - Global Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper addresses women's empowerment in agriculture, innovations in its
measurement, and emerging evidence. We discuss the evolution of the conceptualization …

Frameworks, methods and evidence connecting modern domestic energy services and gender empowerment

I Das, T Klug, PP Krishnapriya, V Plutshack… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
The world remains far from meeting Sustainable Development Goals 5 (gender equality)
and 7 (universal access to modern energy). Energy access may empower women even as …

Associations between women's empowerment and child development, growth, and nurturing care practices in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional analysis of …

L Bliznashka, IE Udo, CR Sudfeld, WW Fawzi… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Approximately 40% of children 3 to 4 years of age in low-and middle-income
countries have suboptimal development and growth. Women's empowerment may help …

[HTML][HTML] Do tradeoffs among dimensions of women's empowerment and nutrition outcomes exist? Evidence from six countries in Africa and Asia

AR Quisumbing, K Sproule, EM Martinez, H Malapit - Food Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Although women's empowerment and gender equality are often linked with better maternal
and child nutrition outcomes, recent systematic reviews find inconclusive evidence. This …

[HTML][HTML] The water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality measure (WASH-GEM): Conceptual foundations and domains of change

N Carrard, J MacArthur, C Leahy, S Soeters… - Women's Studies …, 2022 - Elsevier
Multiple established connections link access to safely managed water, sanitation and
hygiene (WASH) and gender equality. As development actors seek to attain the fifth and …

Women's empowerment and gender equality in South Asian agriculture: Measuring progress using the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro …

A Quisumbing, R Meinzen-Dick, H Malapit - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
This introduction to a special section describes how a recently developed measure, the
project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) can be used to assess …

[HTML][HTML] The Agency, Resources, and Institutional Structures for Sanitation-related Empowerment (ARISE) Scales: Development and validation of measures of …

SS Sinharoy, S McManus, A Conrad, M Patrick… - World …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to ensure access to water and sanitation for
all, and target 6.2 emphasizes “paying special attention to the needs of women and girls” …

Measures of women's empowerment based on individual-level data: a literature review with a focus on the methodological approaches

JC Costa, GE Saad, F Hellwig, MFS Maia… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Quantifying women's empowerment has become the focus of attention of many
international organizations and scholars. We aimed to describe quantitative indicators of …

Investigating impacts of gender-transformative interventions in water, sanitation, and hygiene: Structural validity, internal reliability and measurement invariance of the …

J MacArthur, RP Chase, D Gonzalez, T Kozole… - PLOS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Links between gender equality and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are well
documented in qualitative studies, and emerging literature is recognizing the transformative …

Understanding modifiable caregiver factors contributing to child development among young children in rural Malawi

L Bliznashka, O Nwabuikwu, M Ahun… - Maternal & child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined modifiable caregiver factors influencing child development in Malawi
using baseline data from 1,021 mothers and their children< 2 years of age participating in a …