Measuring women's empowerment

Participation and Rights in Civil, Political, Social, Economic, and Cultural Domains

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3183285
AutoresM Moghadam (0000-0002-1939-0606, Illinois State University), Valentine M Moghadam, Lucie Senftova (Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques)
Año2005
Volumen57
Número184
Páginas389-412
Fecha de publicación2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Social Science Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2451.2005.00557.x
OpenAlexW2143578070
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas37
Referencias citadas14

The Beijing Platform for Action represented a conceptual shift from a focus on "the status of women" and "gender inequality" to the objectives of "gender equality" and "women's empowerment". Among other things, it called for gender-disaggregated data for planning and evaluation. In this paper we define women's empowerment as a multi-dimensional process of achieving basic capabilities, legal rights, and participation in key social, economic, political, and cultural domains, and we offer a set of indicators for its measurement. Although "cultural participation and rights" is difficult to measure, we argue that gender indicators should include the important area of women's access to and participation in cultural institutions and decision-making

Affirmative action · Beijing · China · Cultural rights · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Women's empowerment · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Social Science and Policy Research