in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

Using nationally representative survey data from rural Bangladesh, this paper examines the relationship between women …'s empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is … associated with better dietary quality for individuals within the household, with varying effects across the life course. Women …

limited, especially among smaller producers. Fewer women than men own poultry, but most women report that they control the … equitable gains in terms of gender. Access to credit appears to increase women's poultry ownership, but remains limited, as does … women's access to poultry output markets …

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. We study how … associated with the share of household and hired labor performed by women, and women's empowerment. When a household experiences …

inclusion can enhance existing income and empowerment inequalities by relegating marginalized groups, including women, to low … absolute and relative levels of men’s and women’s empowerment. Women in producer households, on average, fare better on … empowerment outcomes than women in wage-earner or entrepreneur households; the opposite is true for men. The gap between men’s and …

Women’s empowerment is dynamic across the life course, affected not only by age but also by women’s social position … impact on women’s empowerment is not clear. We use qualitative and quantitative data from Nepal to explore the relationship … between women’s social location in the household, caste/ethnicity, husband’s migration status, and women’s empowerment. The …