Working Paper #2021-028
Women's empowerment in Colombia: A multidimensional approach
This article examines the topic of Women's Empowerment in Colombia. Over
the past decades the Colombian government has shown progressive
commitment towards women's rights, empowerment, advancement of gender
equality and the achievement of equal opportunities. While those
endeavours present a crucial advancement, they do not automatically
translate into better outcomes for women. Although empowerment promotion
strategies are evident, they are not based on a clear and measurable
understanding of the concept of women's empowerment which facilitate
tracking future progress. This article addresses this gap by proposing a
multidimensional index of women's empowerment. This index puts forward
specific indicators which allows for monitoring over time and can be
adapted to monitor interventions and performance of programmes which
target women's empowerment. Ultimately, this would help in the
improvement of the design of policies and function as a starting point
to create more favourable conditions for the empowerment of women. The
index is operationalised using the 2015 DHS of Colombia.
- Keywords
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- Women's empowerment
- Colombia
- Multidimensional Empowerment Index
- JEL codes
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- I31
- I32
- Z13
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Rodríguez Guerrero, E., Nimeh, Z., & Franco-Correa, A. (2021). Women's empowerment in Colombia: A multidimensional approach (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2021-028). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=9003