Index

Advances in Women’s Empowerment: Critical Insight from Asia, Africa and Latin America

ISBN: 978-1-83982-473-9, eISBN: 978-1-83982-472-2

ISSN: 1529-2126

Publication date: 21 September 2020

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(2020), "Index", Ochman, M. and Ortega-Díaz, A. (Ed.) Advances in Women’s Empowerment: Critical Insight from Asia, Africa and Latin America (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 29), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 205-209. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620200000029013

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INDEX

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate end notes.

Access

to birth control methods
, 38

to financial resources
, 19–21

Africa effect
, 38

Alcoholism
, 150

Asset(s)

community regime
, 132

index score
, 105

ownership
, 128

Bargaining game
, 40

Basic education
, 19–21, 25, 35–36

Bayesian information criterion (BIC)
, 21, 30n3

Bias
, 72–73

Brazil, income inequality in
, 66

Capabilities Poverty Line
, 137

Civil and Family Codes (CF)
, 129

Civil Codes (CC)
, 129

Civil society
, 158–161

Civil society organizations (CSOs)
, 148, 158–159

Cluster

analysis
, 15, 25

cluster-level empowerment variables
, 45

Cohabitation
, 128–129, 132, 136

Community psychology
, 168

Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)
, 17, 32

Conjugal society regime
, 130

Correlates of FLFP
, 107–116

Cross-section analysis
, 25–29

Debt
, 184

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
, 17, 41

Desired fertility
, 39, 41–42, 44–45, 49–51

Dimensions of women’s empowerment
, 19, 24

Disaggregated study
, 15

Divorce
, 128

Dominance model
, 67, 69, 73

Drug addiction
, 150

Economic

empowerment
, 2

participation
, 20, 34, 36

Education
, 7, 45

Elasticity of intergenerational income for children
, 72

Empowered organizations
, 169

Empowerment (see also Women’s empowerment)
, 2–5, 16, 39, 166, 187, 201

as collective process
, 167–169

nexus
, 39

policies
, 202

European Union (EU)
, 162

Expenditures of the household survey (ENIGH)
, 134, 138

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA)
, 17, 19–20, 32

Factor analysis techniques
, 15, 17

Family Codes (FC)
, 129, 132–134

Federal Civil Code (CCF)
, 129

Female debt, burden of
, 189–192

Female empowerment
, 158

Female homicides
, 148–149

by age
, 153

by educational level
, 155

by marital status
, 154

rate by rural–urban municipalities
, 155

socio-demographic characteristics and spatio-temporal dispersion
, 151–157

Female labor force participation (FLFP)
, 96, 122–124

choice of datasets
, 99–100

correlates
, 107–116

distribution of slum population in million plus Indian cities
, 97

literature review
, 98–99

model and covariates
, 103–107

workforce participation
, 100–103

Fertility transition
, 38–39

Financial inclusion
, 188

Food Poverty Line
, 137

Gender

equality
, 15

indicators
, 15

mainstreaming of public policy
, 39–40

role model
, 67, 69, 73

Gender Alert
, 159–161

Gender differences

in intergenerational income mobility
, 82–85

in intergenerational transmission of education
, 85–89

Gender Equality Index (GEI)
, 23, 25

Gender Gap Index
, 16

Gender inequality index (GII) (see also Multidimensional index of women’s empowerment (MIWE))
, 14, 16

Gender-based violence (GBV)
, 148

cultural and geographical aspects
, 150–151

factors associated with GBV in Mexican context
, 149–151

poverty and GBV in Mexican context
, 149–150

General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence (LGAMVLV)
, 159

Generalizable studies
, 167

Grassroots organizations
, 166–167

bringing voices
, 174–176

empowerment as collective process
, 167–169

La Red de Mujeres de Bajío voices
, 170–172

Las Gaviotas voices
, 172–174

methodological notes
, 169–170

Green revolution
, 186

Heckman model
, 73, 91n2

Household Brazilian Classification of Occupations (CBO)
, 74

Households
, 136, 188

Human Development Index (HDI)
, 25–26

Ideal models
, 136

Income

effect
, 105

inequality in Brazil
, 66

India, metro cities of
, 99–100

Indian Human Development Survey-2 (IHDS-2)
, 99–102

Inequality
, 128

reduction
, 66

Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG indicators (IAEG-SDG indicators)
, 5

Intergenerational elasticity (IGE)
, 67

Intergenerational income mobility
, 66

data selection
, 75

data source and compatibilization of occupation codes
, 74–75

daughters in
, 68–70

descriptive analysis
, 75–78

estimating parents’ income by TSIV
, 71–73

gender differences in intergenerational income mobility
, 82–85

measures
, 70–71

mothers in
, 68–70, 73, 78–82

women in
, 69

Intergenerational income transmission
, 70

Intergenerational mobility analysis
, 67

Intergenerational transmission of education, gender differences in
, 85–89

International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
, 151

Joint model
, 67, 69, 73

La Red de Mujeres de Bajío voices
, 170–172

Labor
, 187, 189

force participation
, 45

market
, 19–21

Labor force participation rate (LFPR)
, 96, 100–101

“Labour, Finance and Social Dynamics” research program
, 185

Las Gaviotas voices
, 172–174

Legal society regime
, 130–132

Likelihood function
, 152

Linear model
, 137

Log likelihood ratio (LLR)
, 153

Logarithmic probability ratio
, 153

Logit model
, 137

Marital regime
, 136, 139

Marital situation tendencies in Mexico
, 134

socioeconomic characteristics
, 135

tendency in divorces
, 135–136

tendency in marital status of women
, 135

Marital status
, 129

Marriage laws

in Mexico
, 128

research on
, 129–134

Methodological notes
, 169–170

Metro cities of India
, 99–100

Mexico

marital situation tendencies in
, 134–136

tendency in divorces
, 135–136

Microcredit
, 187–188

Migration
, 98

Monte Carlo test
, 153

Multidimensional index of women’s empowerment (MIWE)
, 15, 17, 25

country values in
, 34–36

indicators
, 18

Multidimensional Poverty Index
, 27

Multithematic surveys
, 100

Narratives
, 169

National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI)
, 151

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
, 188

National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
, 118n2

Neo-classical theory
, 99

Neoliberalism
, 2

Networks, Employment, dEbt, Mobilities and Skills in India Survey (NEEMSIS)
, 184–185

Non-slum
, 99, 112

Objective measures
, 45

Official income/poverty of household
, 134

Operation Blackboard
, 187

Other Backward Classes (OBC)
, 104

Parental income
, 73

Participation in production activities
, 19–21

Patrimony Poverty Line
, 138

Pearson’s correlation coefficient
, 28

Phenomenological paradigm
, 169

Poverty
, 128

Power relations
, 2–3

Power to approach
, 170

Power with approach
, 170

Power within approach
, 170

Principal components
, 30n2

Profit function
, 128–129

Property regimes in marriage
, 129–134

Property separation regime
, 129–130

Public life
, 19–21

Quantitative studies
, 167

Regression(s)
, 70–72

analysis
, 98

Reproductive health
, 19–21, 34–35

Risk ratio (RR)
, 156

Rural Microfinance and Employment (RUME)
, 184

Rural Tamil Nadu
, 185, 189

SaTScan software
, 152

Scheduled Caste (SC)
, 104

Scheduled Tribes (ST)
, 104

Self-Help Groups (SHG)
, 187

Silent genocide
, 162

Silent revolution
, 184

burden of female debt
, 189–192

context
, 185–188

fall in women’s employment
, 189

method
, 184–185

women’s role in social reproduction
, 192–196

Slum

dwelling housing units
, 100, 112

estimation results for slums clusters
, 112–116

Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA)
, 118n5

Social reproduction, women’s role in
, 192–196

Socio-demographic characteristics of female homicides
, 151–157

Spatio-temporal dispersion of female homicides
, 151–157

Spotlight Initiative
, 162

Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)
, 38

conceptual framework and empirical evidence
, 39–41

data, variables, measurement issues, and methods
, 43–47

empowerment and desired fertility in
, 39

empowerment related to desired fertility
, 52–55

fertility-empowerment relationship country-specific
, 55–59

local context matter
, 59

variable empowerment across countries
, 47–52

Subjective measures
, 45

Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women
, 187

Sustainable Development Agenda
, 1

Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5)
, 5

Theory of structuration
, 149

Time trend analysis
, 21–25

Two-sample instrumental variables method (TSIV method)
, 71

estimating parents’ income by
, 71–73

United Nations (UN)
, 14

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
, 14

gender inequality index
, 23

Usual Principal Status (UPS)
, 101

Usual Subsidiary Status (USS)
, 101

Utility function
, 128

Varimax rotation
, 30n2, 33

Violence
, 148, 151

Wealth effect
, 105

Women

fall in women’s employment
, 189

LFP
, 99

mobility
, 43

position
, 38–39, 42–43

in society
, 67

Women’s empowerment
, 1–2, 14–18, 166, 201

clusters of countries
, 22

cross-section analysis
, 25–29

data and methodology
, 18–21

dimensions
, 19–21, 24

time trend analysis
, 21–25

UNDP gender inequality index
, 23

women’s empowerment-development nexus
, 27

Workforce participation
, 100–103

World Economic Forum (WEF)
, 16, 25