Greetings. I want to develop construct for women empowerment by using different dimensions. I need your help to figure out whether women empowerment reflective Or formative measure?
Interesting to raise this question which does not systematically imply a kind of misunderstanding as much as a desire to better clarify the indicators of measuring women's empowerment.
To my mind, you should first identify the occupation, the area or the space in which you intend to examine women's empowerment. Then, you select your method according to your set forth objective of the study.
By inference, the concept of empowerment denotes/ connotes the fact of boosting confidence in women to raise them in status from less powerful to more powerful. For further clarification, I advise you to see this article. Biswas, T. K., & Kabir, M. (2004). Measuring women’s empowerment : Indicators and measurement techniques. Social Change, 34(3), 64–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/004908570403400305