Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to advances in women's empowerment / Marta Barbara Ochman and Araceli Ortega Diaz -- Recent evidence on the evolution of women's empowerment across dimensions and countries. A multidimensional index of women's empowerment across countries / Eva Medina Moral and Ainhoa Herrarte Sanchez -- Empowerment and desired fertility in Sub Saharan Africa / Anne-Sophie Robilliard -- Gender differences in intergenerational income mobility in Brazil / Gabriela Freitas da Cruz, and Valeria Pero -- Urban female labor force participation and its correlates: a comparative study of slum-dwellers and their urban counterparts of three Metro Cities in India / Sugata Bag -- Marital status and poverty with gender bias / Araceli Ortega Diaz -- The geography of female homicides and the role of civil Organizations in Mexico / Miguel Flores Segovia, and Francisco Gasca SÁnchez -- Women's empowerment and grassroots organizations: an argument for bounded empowerment / Marta Barbara Ochman -- There has been no silent revolution: A decade of empowerment for women in rural Tamil Nadu / Isabelle Guerin, Sebastien Michiels, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Elena Reboul, and G. Venkatasubramanian.

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