Women's Empowerment Bibliography

This bibliography gathers together a range of materials which discuss women's empowerment from varied perspectives in order to provide an accessible introduction to key concepts, approaches and debates.

The document contributes towards a five-year research programme consortium (RPC), Pathways of Women's Empowerment, launched by the Institute for Development Studies in March 2006 and funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).

The RPC aims to understand what enables women to empower themselves and how changes in gendered power relations can be sustained. The programme will involve practitioners, policy makers and researchers from 5 regions, with the goals of revitalising discussion of women's empowerment, generating new insights into the processes and policies that contribute to positive change in women's daily lives, and exploring women's own pathways to empowerment.

This bibliography is divided into four main areas:

- key texts
- policy and practice
- evaluation
- critiques and debates

The entries in this publication also appear on the women's empowerment page featured on the BRIDGE-hosted web resource Siyanda. In addition, this bibliography compliments the forthcoming Eldis' Key Issues Page on women's empowerment which gives an introduction to the subject along with links to key resources.

Available online at: http://www.siyanda.org/docs/bridge_rpc_empowerbiblio.doc

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