Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural–urban continuum in Ethiopia
Little is known about the effects of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV).
Little is known about the effects of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV).
India accounts for a large proportion of the global prevalence of maternal and child undernutrition, and recent trends have renewed the call for large-scale concerted efforts to improve outcomes.
Agricultural advisory services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members within the household, and in formats that often reinforce male dominance in agricultural decision-making.
Agricultural commercialization, or the transition from growing crops for home consumption to growing some or all crops for sale, enables farmers to earn cash income that they can use to buy food in markets.
There is resurging interest in community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) as an approach for achieving global biodiversity conservation goals.
Measuring empowerment is both complicated and time consuming. A number of recent efforts have focused on how to better measure this complex multidimensional concept such that it is easy to implement.
In household surveys, husbands and wives who are asked the same set of survey questions often provide different responses.
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).
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.
Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia--An analysis of current households with natal households of both the husband and wife.
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?
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.
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).