a recent review of the data available on womens empowerment in subsaharan africa found that the demographic and health surveys used in most countries lack questions on adolescent girls further gaps pertaining to the civic and economic participation amongst all adolescents were economic empowerment knowledge of legal rights and recourse participation in decisionmaking and attitudes and social norms heckert and fabic those that exert the greatest impact on their wellbeing at least as understood in the worlds of science and policy are set out intable page