Measuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad Using the Relative Autonomy Index
Increasing women's voice and agency is widely recognized as a key strategy to reduce gender inequalities and improve health outcomes. Although recent studies have found associations between women's autonomy and a number of health outcomes, fundamental issues regarding adequate measurement...
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| description | Increasing women's voice and agency is widely recognized as a key strategy to reduce gender inequalities and improve health outcomes. Although recent studies have found associations between women's autonomy and a number of health outcomes, fundamental issues regarding adequate measurement of women's autonomy remain. The Relative Autonomy Index (RAI) provides a direct measure of motivational autonomy. It expresses the extent to which a woman faces coercive or internalized social pressure to undertake domain-specific actions. This contribution addresses a key critique of current measures of autonomy, which focus on decision making or ignore women's values. This study examines the measurement properties and added value of a number of domain-specific RAIs using new nationally representative data from the Republic of Chad. A striking finding is that women on average have less autonomous motivation in all eight domains compared to their male counterparts. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:1879c514-a13f-42ef-bd44-d0657fda898f2022-03-26T10:43:28ZMeasuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad Using the Relative Autonomy IndexJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:1879c514-a13f-42ef-bd44-d0657fda898fSymplectic Elements at OxfordRoutledge2015Vaz, APratley, PAlkire, SIncreasing women's voice and agency is widely recognized as a key strategy to reduce gender inequalities and improve health outcomes. Although recent studies have found associations between women's autonomy and a number of health outcomes, fundamental issues regarding adequate measurement of women's autonomy remain. The Relative Autonomy Index (RAI) provides a direct measure of motivational autonomy. It expresses the extent to which a woman faces coercive or internalized social pressure to undertake domain-specific actions. This contribution addresses a key critique of current measures of autonomy, which focus on decision making or ignore women's values. This study examines the measurement properties and added value of a number of domain-specific RAIs using new nationally representative data from the Republic of Chad. A striking finding is that women on average have less autonomous motivation in all eight domains compared to their male counterparts. |
| spellingShingle | Vaz, A Pratley, P Alkire, S Measuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad Using the Relative Autonomy Index |
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| title_full | Measuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad Using the Relative Autonomy Index |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad Using the Relative Autonomy Index |
| title_short | Measuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad Using the Relative Autonomy Index |
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