Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
We find strong empirical evidence that raising aspirations is one route to empowering women. Higher aspirations on the part of husbands predicts more egalitarian gender attitudes for both the husband and his wife. However, higher aspirations on the part of wives may be an even more important predict...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2018
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| author | Kosec, Katrina Song, Jie |
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| description | We find strong empirical evidence that raising aspirations is one route to empowering women. Higher aspirations on the part of husbands predicts more egalitarian gender attitudes for both the husband and his wife. However, higher aspirations on the part of wives may be an even more important predictor of women's empowerment. In particular, higher aspirations on the part of wives predict both more egalitarian gender attitudes (for both the husband and his wife) as well as greater involvement of women in household decision-making, as agreed by both the wife and her husband. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1460212025-11-06T05:49:35Z Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan Kosec, Katrina Song, Jie gender demand empowerment decision making women We find strong empirical evidence that raising aspirations is one route to empowering women. Higher aspirations on the part of husbands predicts more egalitarian gender attitudes for both the husband and his wife. However, higher aspirations on the part of wives may be an even more important predictor of women's empowerment. In particular, higher aspirations on the part of wives predict both more egalitarian gender attitudes (for both the husband and his wife) as well as greater involvement of women in household decision-making, as agreed by both the wife and her husband. 2018-12-18 2024-06-21T09:05:36Z 2024-06-21T09:05:36Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146021 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kosec, Katrina; and Song, Jie. 2018. Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146021 |
| spellingShingle | gender demand empowerment decision making women Kosec, Katrina Song, Jie Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan |
| title | Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan |
| title_full | Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan |
| title_fullStr | Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan |
| title_short | Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan |
| title_sort | aspirations and women s empowerment evidence from kyrgyzstan |
| topic | gender demand empowerment decision making women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146021 |
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