 There is now a consensus that the status of women has improved considerably in the last few decades when we consider outcomes related to jobs, health, education, as well as a family planning choices and fertility of women. However, substantial improvements are yet to be made when we consider outcomes such as their representation in politics, the wages and occupations that they are in, as well as their legal rights. We've been looking at a number of studies that rely on high quality data from a variety of developing countries and the broad objective is to understand how women can be empowered both within their households as well as in the public domain. There are studies that look at the effect of gender, there are studies that look at the effect of ethnicity and then there are studies that look at the effect of economic status in determining one's outcomes. However, we find that it is the overlap of these multiple identities that is important for determining outcomes such as jobs, health and education.