Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda

Musonera, Abdou; Heshmati, Almas

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-4451-9_2

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“…Heshmati [24] depicting a negative relationship between woman's age at first marriage and women empowerment. While Brajesh and Shekhar [23] and Jeckoniah, Nombo [22] found positve relationship between woman's age at first marriage and their empowerment (decision making, work status and self-esteem).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For assessing the determinants/sources of women empowerment, we follow the studies where the woman's age at first marriage has found positively [22,23] and negatively [24] associated with their empowerment statuses. The age of the household's head has been shown negatively related [25] and positively correlated [26] with women empowerment.…”

Section: Women Empowerment As a Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Household size is found to be negatively related to women empowerment [26,28]. Women empowerment has known to be positively affiliated with the wealth status of household [23,24,26,29] and adjust our determinants of women empowerment as women' characteristics, husband's characteristics, head of household, children and household's characteristics.…”

Section: Women Empowerment As a Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dimensions and Determinants of Women Empowerment in Developing Countries

Soharwardi¹,

Ahmad²

2020

IJSDP

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This study is an attempt to construct a women empowerment index using multi-dimensional factors in the context of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of women's living conditions at household level. The secondary objective of the study is also to measure the contribution of each factor towards the level of women empowerment. We have employed data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of 38 developing economies on evermarried women in the age of 15-49. Five broad dimensions of women empowerment are created using 19 indicators from DHS that are related to the women empowerment. These five dimensions are; (i) women's work status, (ii) awareness, (iii) participation in decision making, (iv) self-esteem and, (v) self-confidence and multiple regression analysis are used for the estimation of empirical mode. The study finds that women's characteristics, primarily higher education and women's health, husband higher education, husband employment status and household wealth are positively associated with work status, awareness, decision making, selfesteem and self-confidence. Age difference younger than husband have positive association with works status, awareness, self-confidence while have negative association with selfesteem. Further, the number of children alive above five years and the number of children ever born also have significant impact on the women's empowerment. Similarly, age of head of household, gender of head of household, household size, and locality showed significant affect on the women empowerment in the sampled developing economies.

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Section: Women Empowerment As a Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Women Empowerment As a Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dimensions and Determinants of Women Empowerment in Developing Countries

Soharwardi¹,

Ahmad²

2020

IJSDP

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“…The health care empowerment factor was not significant in the groups of pregnant women and non-pregnant women without children under 5 years. Pregnant women are likely to be younger than non-pregnant women with children under 5 years, and studies have shown that younger women are less likely to be empowered than older women [ 43 ]. Non-pregnant women without children under 5 years may have less awareness of the importance of ITNs in malaria prevention because they have not attended ANC or EPI appointments, which include discussion of critical information about malaria [ 44 ].…”

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Factors associated with insecticide-treated net usage among women of childbearing age in Malawi: a multilevel analysis

Nkoka

Chuang

et al. 2018

Malar J

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BackgroundThis study aimed to identify factors at individual and community level influencing insecticide-treated net (ITN) usage among groups of women of childbearing age (WOCBA) in Malawi.MethodsFactors influencing ITN usage in Malawi were assessed through interviews with 16,130 WOCBA (15–49 years) across 850 communities who participated in the 2015–2016 Malawi Demographic Health Survey. Multilevel logistic regression analysis was used.ResultsITN use was similar between pregnant women and non-pregnant women with children under 5 years (45.9% and 46.9%, respectively), but slightly lower among non-pregnant women without children under 5 years (39.1%). Both individual and community characteristics were associated with ITN use among WOCBA and varied significantly across subgroups. Specifically, non-pregnant women with children under 5 years living in communities where women had high autonomy in health care decisions had an 18% greater odds of using an ITN compared with those from communities where women had low health care autonomy (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 1.18; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.00–1.38). Distance to health care facility influenced ITN usage among pregnant women; those who did not regard distance as a problem had a 44% greater odds of using an ITN than those for whom distance was seen as a problem (aOR = 1.44; 95% CI 1.09–1.89). Number of household members, region, urbanization, and community ITN coverage influenced ITN usage across all WOCBA groups.ConclusionThe findings confirmed the importance of assessing various factors affecting ITN usage among groups of WOCBA. Both individual- and community-level factors should be considered when designing and implementing ITN programmes in Malawi.

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“…This result is different from the assumption, the higher the formal education level of the fisherman's wife, the lower the decision to choose the empowerment of the household business. This result differs from the empowerment of women in Rwanda who are influenced by positive and significant education background [21].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 59%

Comparative Perspective Decisions of Traditional Fisherman by using Outboard Motor and Non-Powered Motor in Choosing Empower Capture Fish Processing Business

Rahim¹,

Hastuti²,

Sabar³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Advanced Multidisciplinary Research (ICAMR 2018)

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The government assistance policies program in Barru District include policies for fishing gear for outboard motor fishermen and outboard engine for the non-powered motor. However, those policies do not run well. It can be seen where the income is not sufficient for household economic needs. Therefore, it is necessary to empower the role of fisherman's wife to meet their needs. The purpose of this study is to estimate the difference between traditional fishermen's fishing decision (outboard motor and non-powered motor), in choosing business empowerment of capturing fish processing. The method used is the estimation of the logic model or qualitative responses. The results showed that the decision of traditional fishing wife using outboard motor boats was influenced by positive household income and the age of wife, while wives' educational background, working family members, and regions had no significant effect. On the other hand, the decision of using non-powered motor was influenced by wives' age, formal educational background, working family members, and regions.

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Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Dimensions and Determinants of Women Empowerment in Developing Countries

Dimensions and Determinants of Women Empowerment in Developing Countries

Factors associated with insecticide-treated net usage among women of childbearing age in Malawi: a multilevel analysis

Comparative Perspective Decisions of Traditional Fisherman by using Outboard Motor and Non-Powered Motor in Choosing Empower Capture Fish Processing Business

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