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Women's Employment and Empowerment: Descriptive Evidence

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Abstract

It is widely believed that female employment and empowerment are intimately related. This paper presents relationships between women's employment and various measures of their empowerment, using data from rural India. The measures capture several dimensions of empowerment, including control in economic decision-making, psychosocial aspects of empowerment, and women's own internalization of a lesser status. A number of these measures correlate positively with women's employment, supporting the notion that female employment and empowerment are closely linked.

Citation

McKelway, Madeline. 2022. "Women's Employment and Empowerment: Descriptive Evidence." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 112: 541-45. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20221051

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JEL Classification

  • J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
  • J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
  • O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
  • O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
  • R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics