The SWPER index for women's empowerment in Africa: development and validation of an index based on survey data
Background: The Sustainable Development Goals strongly focus on equity. Goal 5 explicitly aims to empower all women and girls, reinforcing the need to have a reliable indicator to track progress. Our objective was to develop a novel women's empowerment indicator from widely available data sourc...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-09-01
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Series: | The Lancet Global Health |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X17302929 |