The capability approach in empirical women’s studies
A scoping review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15048587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xueer Chen (0000-0002-8834-5147, School of General Education, Chongqing Three Gorges Vocational College, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, corresponding author), Dengwei Yang (Henan University), Tong Wu (0000-0001-9666-3324, Guangxi Medical University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 312-337 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/12259276.2024.2404728 |
| OpenAlex | W4402613526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 69 |
This study conducted a scoping review to explore how the Capability Approach (CA) has been used to conduct empirical research in the field of women’s studies. After general analysis of the articles selected within the eligibility criteria of the current review, we analyzed how the CA was used as a theoretical foundation, a methodological guide, or a practical tool. Through a full screening of 80 empirical articles in this field, we found that the majority fell under the category of “research with women.” While undertaking this research, qualitative methods and a sensitivity to the contexts and environments where the participants lived were employed when selecting articles. We also found that education and development studies held a dominant position within the topic. The studies tended to take a qualitative approach in methodologies, and focused on women of a reproductive age group when choosing research participants. After discussing the advances and weaknesses of employing the CA in empirical women’s studies, we identified where empirical women’s studies using the CA could be developed in terms of disciplines, targeted locations and groups of women, context-sensitivity, and research methodologies
Sociology · Gender Studies · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Feminist methods in social research
The Quality of Life
Accessibility and the Capabilities Approach
Ethics of Global Development
Well-Being, Agency and Freedom
Creating Capabilities
A weakness of the capability approach with respect to gender justice
Human Rights and Capabilities
A capabilities approach to female graduates’ post-secondary academic and career-related goal pursuit in Siem Reap Cambodia
The potential for skills development programmes to empower poverty-affected and refugee women in rural Jordan
Development as Freedom
Inequality Reexamined
The Capability Approach in Research about Children and Childhood
The validity and responsiveness of the Icecap-A capability-well-being measure in women with irritative lower urinary tract symptoms
The capability approach in social work research
Girls’ educational aspirations and agency
Between Rights on Paper and Capabilities on the Ground
Education of women with disabilities in Pakistan
Sen's Capability Approach and Gender Inequality
Does Contraception Benefit Women? Structure, Agency, and Well-Being in Rural Mexico
Sen on Freedom and Gender Justice
Empowerment in their hands
Capabilities for mobility among urban older women
The Capability Approach in Practice
Women’s Changing Opportunities and Aspirations Amid Male Outmigration
Endowments, Entitlements and Capabilities – What Urban Social Movements Offer to Poverty Reduction
Context and history
Reconsidering girls’ education in Turkey from a capabilities and feminist perspective
It makes more sense to educate a boy”
Using the Capability Approach to improve female teacher deployment to rural schools in Nigeria
Quality teaching in rural Sub-Saharan Africa
The problem of gender for Women's Studies
Agency as capabilities
A New Insight into Urban Poverty
Rethinking social recovery in schizophrenia
Setting the Weights
Development, Validity, and Reliability of the Women’s Capabilities Index
Education and Democratic Citizenship
Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
Women and Human Development
The Capability Approach
Good life is first of all security, not to live in fear
Pragmatism and the Capability Approach
At the limits of 'capability
Randomized Control Trials and Qualitative Evaluations of a Multifaceted Programme for Women in Extreme Poverty
Validating an Agency-based Tool for Measuring Women's Empowerment in a Complex Public Health Trial in Rural Nepal
Opportunity Gap Analysis
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |