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. 2021 Oct;146:105579. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105579

Table 3.

Pro-WEAI and A-WEAI empowerment scores and gender parity.

Indicator Pro-WEAI: Empowered if adequate in 7 out of 10 indicators
Pro-WEAIEmpowered if adequate in 8 out of 10 indicators
A-WEAI
Women Men Women Men Women Men
N (number of observations) 1437 1339 1437 1339 1470 1343
Empowerment score 0.74 0.84 0.66 0.73 0.73 0.83
Disempowerment score 0.26 0.16 0.34 0.27 0.27 0.17
% achieving empowerment (empowered headcount) 0.45 0.64 0.19 0.29 0.36 0.54
% not achieving empowerment (disempowered headcount) 0.55 0.36 0.81 0.71 0.64 0.46
Mean empowerment score for not yet empowered (average adequacy score) 0.52 0.55 0.58 0.63 0.58 0.63
Mean disempowerment score for not yet empowered (average inadequacy score) 0.48 0.45 0.42 0.37 0.42 0.37
Gender Parity Index (GPI) 0.9 0.87 0.88
N (number of dual-adult households) 1339 1339 1343
% women achieving parity (1-HGPI) 0.59 0.51 0.53
% women not achieving parity (HGPI) 0.41 0.49 0.47
Average empowerment gap (IGPI) 0.26 0.26 0.25
Aggregate A-WEAI/Pro-WEAI score 0.75 0.68 0.75