Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?

Rae Lesser Blumberg

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Abstract: Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion.†[Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia].

Keywords: child; infant mortality; household; theory; society; stratification; geography; social structure; resources; female; fertility; daughters; economic; empowerment; development; women; women's; woman; gender; euality; inequality; income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-02
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