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Contextual Assessment Of Women Empowerment And Its Determinants: Evidence From Pakistan, Safdar Khan, Rabia Awan
Contextual Assessment Of Women Empowerment And Its Determinants: Evidence From Pakistan, Safdar Khan, Rabia Awan
Safdar Khan
The main objective of this study is to evaluate women empowerment in different contexts of family planning and economic decision making within the household. Further this paper investigates its appropriate determinants sifting through sociology resource control theory and economic bargaining theory by controlling for socio-cultural intervening factors. We examine this empirically by utilizing extensive micro level data information (15,453 households) from ‘Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey’ (PSLM) for the year of 2005-06. Results suggest the presence of highly constrained and largely dichotomous empowerment within the household. Interestingly, we find that the number of children however not the sex …