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Longwe developed the Women's Empowerment Framework, or Longwe Framework, published in 1990. [5] This Gender analysis framework helps planners understand the practical meaning of women's empowerment and equality, and then to evaluate whether a development initiative supports this empowerment. [6]
Much of the Moser Gender Planning Framework is focused in improving women's conditions in the Third World. The Moser Gender Planning Framework is a tool for gender analysis in development planning. It was developed by Caroline Moser. The goal is to free women from subordination and allow them to achieve equality, equity, and empowerment.
The framework helps planners understand the practical meaning of women's empowerment and equality, and then evaluate whether a development initiative supports this empowerment. [13] The basic premise is that women's development can be viewed in terms of five levels of equality: welfare, access, "conscientization", participation and control.
The framework can be used to help planners question what women’s empowerment and equality means in practice. There are five dimensions of WEF that emphasizes the commitment to women's empowerment and gender equality: welfare, access, conscience, participation, and control. [49]
The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.
Harvard Analytical Framework. The Harvard Analytical Framework, also called the Gender Roles Framework, is one of the earliest frameworks for understanding differences between men and women in their participation in the economy. Framework-based gender analysis has great importance in helping policy makers understand the economic case for ...
Batliwala has many publications to her credit on women's empowerment and development issues and her best known book Women’s Empowerment in South Asia – Concepts and Practices, (1993), which has been published in more than 20 languages, is a "conceptual framework and manual" which is widely used as a training manual for empowerment of women.
The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China. [1] At this conference, governments from around the world agreed on a comprehensive plan to achieve global legal equality, known as the Beijing ...