Taking Power : Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysi...
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okr-10986-324942022-09-20T00:13:16Z Taking Power : Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa Annan, Jeannie Donald, Aletheia Goldstein, Markus Gonzalez Martinez, Paula Koolwal, Gayatri GENDER POWER HOUSEHOLD WELLBEING WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT HEALTH EDUCATION AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse for emotional violence. The results show the conceptual and analytical value of intrahousehold contention over decision making and expand the breadth of evidence on the importance of women's power for economic development. 2019-10-04T19:41:19Z 2019-10-04T19:41:19Z 2019-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/447551570021002935/Taking-Power-Womens-Empowerment-and-Household-Well-Being-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32494 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9034 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa |
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GENDER POWER HOUSEHOLD WELLBEING WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT HEALTH EDUCATION AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS Annan, Jeannie Donald, Aletheia Goldstein, Markus Gonzalez Martinez, Paula Koolwal, Gayatri Taking Power : Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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This paper examines women's power
relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African
countries to determine how it affects women's health,
reproductive outcomes, children's health, and
children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure
of women's empowerment that is closely linked to
classical theories of power, built from spouses'
often-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making.
It finds that women's power substantially matters for
health and various family and reproductive outcomes. Women
taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in
particular for girls' health, but it is worse for
emotional violence. The results show the conceptual and
analytical value of intrahousehold contention over decision
making and expand the breadth of evidence on the importance
of women's power for economic development. |
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Working Paper |
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Annan, Jeannie Donald, Aletheia Goldstein, Markus Gonzalez Martinez, Paula Koolwal, Gayatri |
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Annan, Jeannie Donald, Aletheia Goldstein, Markus Gonzalez Martinez, Paula Koolwal, Gayatri |
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Annan, Jeannie |
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Taking Power : Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Taking Power : Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Taking Power : Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Taking Power : Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Taking Power : Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in sub-saharan africa |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/447551570021002935/Taking-Power-Womens-Empowerment-and-Household-Well-Being-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32494 |
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