1Assistant Professor, Department of Economics & Finance, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. E-amil: sudatta@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
2Assistant Professor, Department of Economics & Finance, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. E-amil: swati@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
3Student, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. E-amil: supriyalakhtakia96@gmail.com
4Assistant Professor, School of Business, Vellore Institute of Technology. E-mail: mousumi296@gmail.com
Online published on 24 February, 2020.
To move towards a more prosperous society, empowering women is essential. This paper aims to find the determinants of women empowerment and its effects on child health. The study proposes a model that takes into account generational effect of women empowerment through the use of three concepts-antecedents, mediators and an outcome-and the relationships between them. The results suggest that knowledge, awareness of political and legal rights and less discrimination against daughters are the main determinants of women empowerment. Results show that freedom of mobility and decision making capability of the woman has a positive effect on child health.
Women empowerment, Awareness of rights, Discrimination, Child health, Multiple regression
