Search / Search Results Date Added to Site: 25th April 2006     Short Summary Title Measuring Women's Empowerment: Participation and Rights in Civil, Political, Social, Economic, and Cultural Domains Author Moghadam, V.M. and Senftova, L. Publication Date June 2005 Publisher Blackwell Publishing Volume International Social Science Journal Series 57, 2: 389-412(24) Short Summary There have been many attempts to measure women's empowerment in the development field, but these have had various shortcomings. There is confusion over concepts, a lack of disaggregated data and limited information on household dynamics. Measurements and indicators to date have focused more on civil and political rights, what are known as “first generation” human rights, than on “second generation”, economic, social and cultural rights. In this paper, empowerment is defined as a multi-dimensional process of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural participation and rights. To analyse these, a framework using six key domains is presented. These are used to assess women's participation (referring to an active social condition), rights (referring to a formal, legal condition) and capabilities (preconditions for the enjoyment of rights and enhancement of participation). The domains are: socio-demographic indicators, bodily integrity and health, literacy and educational attainment, economic participation and rights, political participation and rights, cultural participation and rights. Indicators include: life expectancy at birth, sexual and physical abuse against women, literacy rates, amount of maternity leave, and number of feminist resources in the print and electronic media. This article is available from Ingenta Connect by subscription http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/issj/2005/00000057/00000002/art00015 Alternatively it is available from the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS) which offers a document delivery and inter-library loan service, see: http://blds.ids.ac.uk/blds/docdel.html Summary Source Adapted from author