Measuring women's economic empowerment: Lessons from South America

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1 Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment: Issues and Challenges 2 Conceptualizing Women’s Economic Empowerment as a Process and Implications for its Measurement in South American Countries Susana Martinez-Restrepo and Laura Ramos-Jaimes PART 1 DECISION MAKING: WHICH DECISIONS EMPOWER WOMEN ECONOMICALLY? 3 What Does it Mean to Jointly Manage Household Expenditures? Evidence from a Financial Education Program in Peru Johanna Yancari Cueva 4 Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru Martin Valdivia 5 Freedom to Choose: The Role of Abstract and Concrete Questions in Colombia and Peru Susana Martinez-Restrepo and Johanna Yancari Cueva PART 2 EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES AND THE QUALITY AND STATUS OF WORK AS ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT 6 Labor Markets and Economic Empowerment: Evidence from the Impact Evaluation of Red UNIDOS in Colombia Susana Martinez-Restrepo 7 The Role of Choice and Constraints in Women’s Willingness to Take a Job in Cali, Colombia Susana Martinez-Restrepo 8 Subjective Definitions of Work: The Use of Discussion Groups to Measure Subjective Dimensions of Women’s Economic Empowerment in Uruguay Alma Espino 9 Methodological Considerations in Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in South America

Author(s): Susana Martínez-Restrepo, Laura Ramos-Jaimes, (eds.)
Publisher: IDRC/ CRDI; FEDESARROLLO; Goetz
Year: 2017

Language: Spanish
Pages: 173+xii
City: Washington, DC
Tags: Peru

Acronyms
Preface
Susana Martinez-Restrepo
1 Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment: Issues and Challenges
2 Conceptualizing Women’s Economic Empowerment as a Process
and Implications for its Measurement in South American Countries
Susana Martinez-Restrepo and Laura Ramos-Jaimes
PART 1 DECISION MAKING: WHICH DECISIONS EMPOWER
WOMEN ECONOMICALLY?
3 What Does it Mean to Jointly Manage Household Expenditures?
Evidence from a Financial Education Program in Peru
Johanna Yancari Cueva
4 Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions
of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru
Martin Valdivia
5 Freedom to Choose: The Role of Abstract and Concrete Questions
in Colombia and Peru
Susana Martinez-Restrepo and Johanna Yancari Cueva
PART 2 EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES AND THE QUALITY AND
STATUS OF WORK AS ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
6 Labor Markets and Economic Empowerment: Evidence from the
Impact Evaluation of Red UNIDOS in Colombia
Susana Martinez-Restrepo
7 The Role of Choice and Constraints in Women’s Willingness to Take
a Job in Cali, Colombia
Susana Martinez-Restrepo
8 Subjective Definitions of Work: The Use of Discussion Groups to Measure
Subjective Dimensions of Women’s Economic Empowerment in Uruguay
Alma Espino
9 Methodological Considerations in Measuring Women’s Economic
Empowerment in South America
References
Appendix