Multidimensional Measures of Female Disempowerment

This study offers a new methodology to measure female disempowerment, where such individuals are denied the liberty of making fundamental life choices, with techniques that have been developed exclusively to measure social deprivation. These multidimensional indicators have been applied to calculate statistics in India at state, regional and national levels, and have provided quantifiable statistics with which to assess regional diversity in gender equity in India. Further, the decomposability property of these indicators have allowed for the identification of those regions (or states) and decisions categories that have contributed more than others to the total disempowerment of women.