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Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African CountriesMeasuring Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda

Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African Countries: Measuring Women’s... [This study examines the determinants of women’s empowerment in Rwanda using the data obtained from the Demographic and Heath Survey (DHS) (2010). It uses a regression analysis to investigate the association between women’s empowermentWomen’s empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a multinomial logistic regression to assess what determines households’ decision-making and attitudes toward physical abusePhysical abuse of spouses. It finds variables of sources of empowermentSources of empowerment such as education and media exposureMedia exposure to have a net positive association with women’s empowerment, while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriageFirst marriage to be negatively associated with women’s empowermentWomen’s empowerment. A further analysis shows that the effects of education, age of the respondent, wealth and the number of children ever born remain strong conditions which effect households’ decision-making and attitudes about physical abusePhysical abuse. In general, it seems that for women to fully realize their potential and rights, specific emphasis should be put on variables that increase their access to resources and knowledge such as education, employment for cash, and media exposureMedia exposure, but variables that are negatively associated with their empowerment such as higher age at first marriageFirst marriage should also be taken into account.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African CountriesMeasuring Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda

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Springer Singapore
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© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
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978-981-10-4450-2
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11 –39
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10.1007/978-981-10-4451-9_2
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[This study examines the determinants of women’s empowerment in Rwanda using the data obtained from the Demographic and Heath Survey (DHS) (2010). It uses a regression analysis to investigate the association between women’s empowermentWomen’s empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a multinomial logistic regression to assess what determines households’ decision-making and attitudes toward physical abusePhysical abuse of spouses. It finds variables of sources of empowermentSources of empowerment such as education and media exposureMedia exposure to have a net positive association with women’s empowerment, while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriageFirst marriage to be negatively associated with women’s empowermentWomen’s empowerment. A further analysis shows that the effects of education, age of the respondent, wealth and the number of children ever born remain strong conditions which effect households’ decision-making and attitudes about physical abusePhysical abuse. In general, it seems that for women to fully realize their potential and rights, specific emphasis should be put on variables that increase their access to resources and knowledge such as education, employment for cash, and media exposureMedia exposure, but variables that are negatively associated with their empowerment such as higher age at first marriageFirst marriage should also be taken into account.]

Published: May 3, 2017

Keywords: Women’s empowerment; Physical abuses; Household decision-making; Rwanda; D63; D91; I15; I25; J12

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