Impacts of the Gender and Entrepreneurship Together Ahead (GET Ahead) training on empowerment of female microfinance borrowers in Northern Vietnam

•The first study to investigate the impact of the GET Ahead training on women’s empowerment.•We focus on three aspects of women’s empowerment.•We compare female borrowers invited to training with their husband, alone.•Training participation improved women’s empowerment in the medium run.•Results show no additional impacts of inviting husbands to training.