caa a22 4500 467898049 CHVBK 20180406152809.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-7556-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-7556-z Evidence of women's empowerment in India: a study of socio-spatial disparities [Elektronische Daten] [Kamla Gupta, P. Yesudian] Various national and international communities have addressed women's issues and taken various efforts to empower them so as to enhance their social and health status and involve them in developmental activities. The Indian DHS survey (National Family Health Survey, 1998-1999) provides an opportunity to study women's empowerment in India. The survey collected information on several dimensions of women's empowerment from 90,303 ever-married women (ages 15-49), from all the states of India. Utilizing these data sets, four indices - household autonomy index, mobility index, attitude towards gender index and attitude towards domestic violence index - are constructed to measure the different dimensions of empowerment. Using these indices, the spatial and socio-economic and cultural disparities that exist within India are analyzed. Finally, an attempt is made to identify some important determinants for women's empowerment using multiple logistic regression analysis. The results show that at the national level, 43% of the women have high household autonomy; 23% of the women have high freedom to move outside their home; 40% of the women have no gender preference attitude; and only 43% of the women defy domestic violence. But there are significant divergences in these indices of women's empowerment across the different states and socio-economic and cultural settings within India. Women's educational levels emerged as an important predictor for all the four dimensions of women's empowerment. Additionally, media exposure and age have emerged as the important predictors for some dimensions of woman's empowerment. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 woman nationallicence status nationallicence empowerment nationallicence autonomy nationallicence ideology and mobility nationallicence Gupta Kamla Department of Migration and Urban Studies and National Family Health Survey, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), 400 088, Deonar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India aut Yesudian P. National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2), International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), 400 088, Deonar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India aut GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 65/4(2006-05-01), 365-380 0343-2521 65:4<365 2006 65 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-7556-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-7556-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gupta Kamla Department of Migration and Urban Studies and National Family Health Survey, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), 400 088, Deonar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yesudian P. National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2), International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), 400 088, Deonar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 65/4(2006-05-01), 365-380 0343-2521 65:4<365 2006 65 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer