A framework for evaluating women’s leadership programmes

Abstract

The increase in women’s leadership programmes has been paralleled by a growing demand on behalf of private and public sector stakeholders for pragmatic reporting on impact assessment. Yet, there remains limited research and tools available for conducting evaluation of women’s leadership programmes. Based on an extensive review of the literature and co-design with a sub-national Australian government, we develop an evaluation framework for women’s leadership programmes. Our framework identifies critical measures and indicators at a micro, meso and macro level that can be used by researchers and practitioners to measure the impact of women’s leadership programmes on women (and minoritised gend..