Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan PDF Author: Kosec, Katrina
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Book 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.