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Indicators for gender equality and the empowerment of women: from concept to practice

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Title Indicators for gender equality and the empowerment of women: from concept to practice
 
Creator Chavarro, Mónica Juliana
Moreno, Manuel
Muriel, Juliana
Twyman, Jennifer
 
Subject gender
genero
agriculture
agricultura
women
mujeres
research
investigación
 
Description As part of the project “Developing Gender
Indicators in Agriculture,” we conducted a literature
review in order to understand how research and
agricultural development projects in Latin America
measure women’s empowerment and gender
inequalities. The research allowed us to conduct
a close examination of the theoretical concepts
and the methodologies employed, and the way in
which both of these are linked, in practice. In the
study, we uncovered similarities in the theoretical
definitions of women’s empowerment and gender
inequality used, but differences in the way in which
each study operationalizes these concepts. These
different operationalizations were found in turn to
be connected with the methodological approaches
that guided each research study or program.
We also found discrepancies in the theoretical
frameworks used and the results presented,
with many of the reviewed studies basing
their theoretical frameworks on the concept of
empowerment, but framing their results in terms of
reaching or benefiting women, but not necessarily
in terms of women’s empowerment.
 
Date 2020-11
2020-12-17T21:05:42Z
2020-12-17T21:05:42Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Chavarro, M.J.; Moreno, M.; Muriel, J.; Twyman, J. (2020) Indicators for gender equality and the empowerment of women: from concept to practice. Working Paper No. 505. Cali (Colombia) International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) 36 p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110554
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 36 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Center for Tropical Agriculture