Elisabeth Rottach

Biographic Data

ID843858
NAMEElisabeth Rottach
GIVEN NAMESElisabeth
FAMILY NAMERottach
SIGNATUREROTTACH E
AFFILIATIONSAcademy for Educational Development, 1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009 U.S.A.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Deconstructing gender: Evidence on How Programmes Address Gender Inequalities to Improve Health

    Elisabeth Rottach, Sara Pappa et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2017Cited by: 1References: 15

    A growing body of evidence demonstrates that incorporating approaches to address gender inequality in programmes can lead to improved health outcomes. This article aims to deconstruct the various dimensions of gender and identify how programmes address these domains to improve health. This study draws on a broader systematic review examining the impact of gender-integrated programmes on health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. We iden…

  • Why Does Women's Empowerment In One Generation Not Lead To Later Marriage and Childbearing In The Next: Qualitative Findings from Bangladesh

    Sidney Ruth Schuler, Elisabeth RottachARTICLEJournal of Comparative Family…2011

    This study uses qualitative data to explore the socio-cultural processes through which women influence two proximate determinants of health and well-being-age at marriage and age at initiation of childbearing-in the next generation, and to investigate social processes that may be undermining women's empowerment and its effects across generations. Open-ended, in-depth interviews were conducted with triads of womenyoung married women, their mothers…

  • Women's Empowerment across Generations in Bangladesh

    Sidney Ruth Schuler, Elisabeth RottachARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2010

    This study uses qualitative data to examine young women's relationships with their mothers and mothers-in-law to understand how these relationships foster empowerment in the younger generation or fail to do so. The data consist of ethnographic interviews with 20 triads of women-young married women, their mothers and their mothers-in-law. Findings show that the influence of empowerment across generations was greater in the sphere of economic empow…

  • Women's empowerment revisited: A case study from Bangladesh

    Sidney Ruth Schuler, Farzana Islam et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2010Cited by: 9References: 6

    This article explores the changing dimensions of women's empowerment over time in three Bangladesh villages where one of the authors has been conducting research since 1991. The article discusses theoretical issues related to the measurement of women's empowerment, and describes findings from a recent study in the villages exploring the current salience of indicators developed for a 1992 survey. In the article we discuss the types of social, econ…