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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Autores principales: Kosec, Katrina, Song, Jie
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146021
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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
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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
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topic gender
demand
empowerment
decision making
women
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146021
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