Analyzing the Impact of Education on Women’s Empowerment: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

Abstract

This research paper presents a meta-analysis conducted to examine the relationship between women empowerment and education, income, holdings, family size, and age. As the variable with most available data was education hence the Meta analysis conducted between it and empowerment for the study. Overall 104 research papers are selected from various sources, in which empowerment is analysed by variables. To conduct the meta-analysis, and the “Metafor” package in R-programming was used for data analysis. Information and data were extracted from all the selected 104 publications and compiled in an MS Excel Sheet. A list of the information extracted from the publications and recorded in the MS Excel Sheet. Out of 104 research papers, 84 papers are excluded since a correlation value was not found. The remaining 17 research papers are further explored, it was found that 7 of them again need to be excluded due to a lack of suitable data. Finally, only 9 research papers found which are having correlation value between education and woman empowerment. The findings revealed that education is a common factor in most studies and has a significant impact on women empowerment. Among the selected papers, nine studies were found to have a correlation value between education and women empowerment. The meta-analysis results indicated that there is no statistically significant difference between education and women empowerment at a 95% confidence level. Heterogeneity was observed among the studies, suggesting variations in the effect size. Overall, this study contributes to the understanding of the relationship between education and women empowerment.