Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes

'Excellent and long-overdue collection of essays... In their introductory essay, Presser and Sen provide an admirable overview.' -Population and Development Review 'This book is a useful resource for researchers and practitioners who are looking for tools and for models to follow in transforming an ideological and academic commitment to women's empowerment into solid empirical research.' -Gender andamp; Society 'The chapters by Shireen Jejeebhoy and by Sunita Kishor are very useful case studies in how to take on the daunting question of measuring women's empowerment.' -Gender andamp; Society 'This book does make necessary contributions to the study of both gender and of demographic processes, largely because it gathers together a broad set of analytic tools, schemata, and concepts for talking about women's empowerment - a veritable 'tool kit' for those who want to study empowerment but are not sure where to begin or how to approach this vast topic.' -Gender andamp; SocietyThis volume extends the research programme on women's empowerment originally brought to prominence at the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. Contributors spanning a broad geographical scope have been brought together by editors Harriet Presser and Gita Sen, creating a book that refines the definition of the concept of empowerment and how it can be measured. In addition, it examines how useful it has been in the understanding of demographic process, and evaluates the usefulness of the concept for establishing population policies. It will be of interest to readers in both the research and policy communities.