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The importance of women’s roles for nutrition-sensitive agricultural projects is increasingly recognized, yet little is known about whether such projects improve women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Women’s groups are important rural social and financial institutions in South Asia. In India, a large majority of women’s groups programs are implemented through self-help groups (SHGs).
Migration, labor and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh
As a substantial portion of the rural labor force migrates to urban areas, it is commonly assumed that women could take over traditionally male tasks in agricultural production, with potentially empowering outcomes for women.
Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter: Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia
Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia--An analysis of current households with natal households of both the husband and wife.
Women’s decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues.
Perceptions of relative deprivation and women’s empowerment
How do perceptions of one’s relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women’s economic participation and involvement in decision-making in their community and household?
Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda
We study the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women’s economic empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda. We find that lower socioeconomic status and household gender norms both predict a couple’s refusal of the intervention.
Women’s patterns of time-use, which proxy the work burdens associated with productive and reproductive activities, are an important determinant of nutrition and well-being in LMICs.
Ask me why: Patterns of intrahousehold decision-making
A look beyond the identity of household decisionmakers to the rationale behind who makes decisions and whether that rationale factors in household outcomes.
Women’s empowerment is a process that includes increases in intrinsic agency (power within); instrumental agency (power to); and collective agency (power with).
The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India.
Context and measurement: An analysis of the relationship between intrahousehold decision making and autonomy
Do men and women who report sole decision making in a particular domain experience stronger (or weaker) feelings of autonomous motivation? (Bangladesh & Ghana study)
Conservative outlook, gender norms and female wellbeing: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
The association between household conservatism and female well-being indicators, by considering the dimension of employment, decision-making autonomy and body mass (nutrition).
Gender, assets, and agricultural development
Lessons from eight projects on individual and household assets in seven countries in Africa and South Asia
Do female instructors reduce gender bias in diffusion of sustainable land management techniques?
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