Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in Market Systems
- Partner: The SEEP Network, UN Women, and Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
- Publication Type: Webinar
- Date: August 28, 2015
- Team: Helen Bradbury, Elizabeth Dunn, Laraine Mills, and Erin Markel (MarketShare Associates)
- Recommended Citation: Bradbury, Helen, Elizabeth Dunn, Laraine Mills, and Erin Markel (MarketShare Associates). “Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in Market Systems”. The SEEP Network (webinar), August 28, 2015. https://marketshareassociates.com/staging/measuring-womens-economic-empowerment-in-market-systems.
Gender inequality and the process of empowerment are dynamic and complex, as are the market systems in which women work. Monitoring and evaluation systems must be consistently updated and adapted along with the changing needs of women in order to effectively address the market constraints they face. This requires a carefully designed M&E system that captures data on women’s economic empowerment from multiple perspectives. This webinar explored practices in measuring women’s economic empowerment such as innovations in measuring agency, gender norms, and gendered behavior changes at the firm and household level, as well as insights from implementing these practices when working with the private sector.
