Devex published an article on the challenges of an accurate picture of the differences in food security between men and women when using typical household survey methods. Research Fellow Jessica Heckert stated that “countrywide surveys offer the advantage of gathering data on a wider variety of topics, but because of that breadth in a single survey, it can be difficult to reach more than ‘superficial’ conclusions about gender or women’s empowerment.” IFPRI is working on a project, Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Survey Systems (WEMNS) to develop a metric that would provide standardized gender data from surveys conducted by countries themselves.
