TY - JOUR AU - Wieringa, Saskia AB - This paper describes work underway to enrich the present tools to measure women's empowerment -- particularly the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). The authors are developing an African Gender and Development Index (AGDI) on behalf of the Economic Commission for Africa, which is to be launched in 2004. The paper begins with a discussion of gender and power concepts, and then introduces a Women' s Empowerment Matrix as a tool to help link socio-cultural, religious, political, legal, and economic spheres. It then raises some of the difficulties related to the calculation of the GDI and GEM, which the authors are taking into account in the AGDI. TI - Measuring Women's Empowerment: An assessment of the Gender-related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure JF - Journal of Human Development DO - 10.1080/1464988032000125773 DA - 2003-11-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/measuring-women-apos-s-empowerment-an-assessment-of-the-gender-related-DoWK0d5K0l SP - 419 EP - 435 VL - 4 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -