This policy brief explores on women’s empowerment in Tanzania: Predictors of women’s ability to control their income. The brief has it that a few women (12%) decided on how to spend their money independently, and that a large proportion of women (88%) made joint spending decisions with their spouses. It finds out that women with formal education were over seven times more likely to make their own spending decisions than for their men counterparts. It also underscores that women employed by the government, private sector, and non-governmental or civil society organisations were two times more likely to make their own spending decisions than those in self-employment. READ ON to catch up with other key findings, and recommendations.