Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Download or read book Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan written by Kosec, Katrina and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We find strong empirical evidence that raising aspirations is one route to empowering women. Higher aspirations on the part of husbands predicts more egalitarian gender attitudes for both the husband and his wife. However, higher aspirations on the part of wives may be an even more important predictor of women's empowerment. In particular, higher aspirations on the part of wives predict both more egalitarian gender attitudes (for both the husband and his wife) as well as greater involvement of women in household decision-making, as agreed by both the wife and her husband.