Pros and Cons of Women Empowerment Methodologies/ Approches: A Review Singh Neha*, Raj Khusboo, Kaur Sarvjeet Division of Dairy Extension, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132 001, Haryana, India. *Corresponding Author: Neha Singh, Division of Dairy Extension, ICAR-NationalDairy Research Institute, Karnal-132 001, Haryana, India. Email: nehhaa88@gmail.com
Online published on 24 January, 2022. Abstract As the concept of “empowerment” varies depending on the context or circumstances with different meanings and terminologies by different researchers the methods for systematically measuring empowerment differs. Multiple important instruments are constructed to monitor progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment at a regional and global scale. The paper will highlight particularly on the approaches developed by UNDP like gender-related development index (GDI), women’s empowerment index (WEI) etc. with special focus on pros and cons of each methodology.Although manystudies and discussions around empowerment are commonly limited to activities like “economic”, “social” and “political” forms of empowerment. Therefore it sometimes also requires interventions that are beyondsurvey and are more holistic that explores other dimensions that have practical implications for towomen’s empowerment.The paper also reflects on some different kinds of non-survey instruments that can be usefulfor measuring women’s empowerment with their pros and cons. Most of the non-survey instruments described in this paper can generate both quantitative and qualitative data and have many uses including the evaluation of a development programme. Like our survey questionnaires, we can also pretest our non-survey instruments extensively with people who arealike to respondents in our study, so that the logistic work could be easy to conduct and understandable by the researchers. Top Keywords Empowerment, Indicators, Instrument, Non survey. Top |