Ebook: Measuring women's economic empowerment: Lessons from South America

1 Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment: Issues and Challenges
2 Conceptualizing Women’s Economic Empowerment as a Process
and Implications for its Measurement in South American Countries
Susana Martinez-Restrepo and Laura Ramos-Jaimes
PART 1 DECISION MAKING: WHICH DECISIONS EMPOWER
WOMEN ECONOMICALLY?
3 What Does it Mean to Jointly Manage Household Expenditures?
Evidence from a Financial Education Program in Peru
Johanna Yancari Cueva
4 Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions
of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru
Martin Valdivia
5 Freedom to Choose: The Role of Abstract and Concrete Questions
in Colombia and Peru
Susana Martinez-Restrepo and Johanna Yancari Cueva
PART 2 EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES AND THE QUALITY AND
STATUS OF WORK AS ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
6 Labor Markets and Economic Empowerment: Evidence from the
Impact Evaluation of Red UNIDOS in Colombia
Susana Martinez-Restrepo
7 The Role of Choice and Constraints in Women’s Willingness to Take
a Job in Cali, Colombia
Susana Martinez-Restrepo
8 Subjective Definitions of Work: The Use of Discussion Groups to Measure
Subjective Dimensions of Women’s Economic Empowerment in Uruguay
Alma Espino
9 Methodological Considerations in Measuring Women’s Economic
Empowerment in South America