The Female Empowerment Index (FEMI): spatial and temporal variation in women's empowerment in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: Improving female empowerment is an important human rights and development goal that needs better monitoring. A number of indices have been developed to track female empowerment at the national level, but these are incomplete and may obscure important sub-national variation. We developed the Female Empowerment Index (FEMI) to track multiple domains of women's empowerment at the sub-national level. The index is based on six categories of empowerment: violence against women, employment, education, reproductive healthcare, decision making, and access to contraceptives. The FEMI has a range of zero to one (low to high empowerment), and it is calculated as the mean proportion of positive outcomes in the six categories. To provide a proof of concept, we computed the FEMI for Nigeria and its 36 st

SUBMITTER: Rettig EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7226653 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature