Family Planning, Women's Empowerment, and Population and Societal Impacts Proceedings of a Workshop (2021) / Chapter Skim
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8 Key Themes and Next Steps
8 Key Themes and Next Steps
Pages 77-84
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Tsui commented on the sense of urgency regarding the application of empowerment constructs in the field and juxtaposed that urgency with the fact that the research and science will take time to demonstrate their effects. Tsui said that this workshop presents a unique opportunity to advance conceptualizations of women's empowerment, consider outliers (as in the presentation by Zeba Sathar)
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Tsui emphasized that women's empowerment is not a one-method intervention, such as contraception, nor simply a policy, such as universal schooling or safe motherhood policies, but is rather a human development process. Third, research may systematically include men and young boys in the process of empowering women's choices, decisions, and achievements.
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Finlay argued that more frequent measurements from smaller studies also offer some advantages compared to broader cross-sectional data collection and may allow researchers to study questions related to mechanisms of empowerment rather than merely its prevalence. Finlay cited a question from Zeba Sathar regarding the relative ade quacy of theoretical frameworks.
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Ezeh suggested that researchers consider the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on both demographic research and data collection efforts. Much of this work relies on face-to-face interviews and may need to be earranged r in the future to avoid disruptions to data collection.
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Buvinic concluded with a call for research on how behavior influences social norms, acknowledging that much work already exists examining the reverse relationship, that is, how social norms influence behavior. Behavior is the trigger for changes in social norms, and thus studies can help to identify the behavioral attributes that drive social transformation.
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Ann Blanc, Steering Committee Chair, Population Council Blanc concluded the workshop by recognizing progress in both the sophistication and nuance in conceptual work on women's empowerment. To put this work to use, Blanc called for more studies on the pathways that link women's empowerment to SRH outcomes and posed several questions to guide future research directions: • What are the roles of changing attitudes and gender norms on the pathway to better SRH outcomes?
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Blanc remarked that she worked on a 1985 report on women's employment and fertility that outlined the limitations of cross-sectional data, highlighting a long-standing opportunity for donors to support longitudinal work. Although cross-sectional surveys such as those performed by the DHS are valuable and fulfill their intended functions, they will not help overcome the endogeneity problem that obscures causal relationships in the empowerment process.
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