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Multidimensional Measures of Female Disempowerment

verfasst von: Ankita Mishra

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 3/2014

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This study offers a new methodology to measure female disempowerment, where such individuals are denied the liberty of making fundamental life choices, with techniques that have been developed exclusively to measure social deprivation. These multidimensional indicators have been applied to calculate statistics in India at state, regional and national levels, and have provided quantifiable statistics with which to assess regional diversity in gender equity in India. Further, the decomposability property of these indicators have allowed for the identification of those regions (or states) and decisions categories that have contributed more than others to the total disempowerment of women.

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This is the decomposable poverty measure suggested by Foster et al. (1984)

Calculations of disempowerment rates reported here have been fixed at 1. The evidence is also provided on how the relative importance of various disempowerment dimensions varies, and for this we have used the scale of 0–5, following Mishra and Ray (2013) and Mishra and Ray (2012).

The only departure in this study from Dyson and Moore (1983) on regional grouping of the states is the inclusion of Assam in the east group. This is done as Assam is one of biggest states of the north-east region and culturally versatile. Its inclusion in the list broadens the scope and comprehensibility of this study.

These can be considered as instruments to measure disempowerment

For literature on regional divergence in gender equity in India, refer to Rahman and Rao (2004).

Refer to Mishra and Ray (2013) for multidimensional deprivation measures and Mishra and Ray (2011) for unidimensional measures of social exclusion.

Rahman and Rao (2004) analysis was based on randomized individual survey conducted in 1995 in five districts in Karnataka in South India and five districts in Uttar Pradesh in the North.

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Titel: Multidimensional Measures of Female Disempowerment
verfasst von: Ankita Mishra
Publikationsdatum: 01.12.2014
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-013-0544-z

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