Women’s empowerment: defining and operationalizing a critical variable
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Heidi H. Liles (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Steve Kroll-Smith
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to shed light on how development experts and organizations define and operationalize the term “women’s empowerment.” Utilizing primarily qualitative interviewing and some document analysis, I investigate how experts define women’s empowerment, if or how they involve beneficiaries in project design and implementation, as well as how organizations measure women’s empowerment and/or project “success.” The findings highlight the complexities of women’s empowerment and factors that impact the approaches taken to empowering women in the Global South.
Women’s empowerment: defining and operationalizing a critical variable
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2021
- Keywords
- Gender, International development, Women's empowerment
- Subjects
- Feminism $z Developing countries
- Women's rights $z Developing countries
- Women $z Developing countries $x Social conditions
- Women $z Developing countries $x Economic conditions