“…To date, women’s empowerment has been predominantly investigated by assessing women’s personal agency (e.g., Alvarez, van Leeuwen, Montenegro‐Montenegro, & van Vugt, ) or their perceived influence over financial decision‐making within the household (for overviews, see Duvendack, Palmer‐Jones, & Vaessen, ; Huis, Hansen, Otten, & Lensink, ). Previous research mainly studied women as individual agents and did not consider the social relationships they are embedded in.…”