Pakistan performs poorly with respect to gender equality, women's empowerment, and other gender-related indicators. Few … studies in Pakistan measure the multiple dimensions of empowerment along which women are marginalized or disenfranchised …, particularly in the country's rural areas. Even fewer studies address the gender gaps in empowerment levels of men and women. This …

There are concerns that increasing women’s engagement in agriculture could have a negative effect on nutrition because … agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to … long hours in agriculture reduces women’s dietary diversity score in Ghana and nonpoor women’s in Mozambique. However, for …

asymmetries may be a first-best means of empowering women in agriculture. Other, more subtle means that seek to influence … this experiment, men, women, and couples are shown randomly assigned videos about improved maize management practices in … effects of changes in intra-household information asymmetries, investigating whether involving women as recipients of …

clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …

resources that men and women control, whether solely or jointly; and (4) why does it matter? …

Despite increases in women's employment, significant gender disparity exists in the time men and women spend on … find that longer hours spent on household work are associated with lower levels of subjective well-being among women who … disagree with patriarchal notions of gender roles, while the opposite is true for women who agree with patriarchal notions of …

cultural norms in shaping the economic roles women can adopt. With a push towards diversification of agriculture into higher … 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 …

Rural household economies dependent on rainfed agriculture are increasingly turning to irrigation technology solutions … increasingly using market-based approaches to disseminate technologies to smallholder farmers, and, although women are among their … targeted group, little is known of the extent to which these approaches are reaching and benefiting women. There is also little …

field experiment conducted among women’s self-help groups in an eastern state of India. The experiment focused on the …