Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature
Women's disempowerment is hypothesised to contribute to high rates of undernutrition among South Asian children. However, evidence for this relationship has not been systematically reviewed. This review of empirical studies aims to: (1) synthesise the evidence linking women's empowerment and child n...
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| author | Cunningham, Kenda Ruel, Marie T. Ferguson, Elaine Uauy, Ricardo |
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| description | Women's disempowerment is hypothesised to contribute to high rates of undernutrition among South Asian children. However, evidence for this relationship has not been systematically reviewed. This review of empirical studies aims to: (1) synthesise the evidence linking women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia and (2) suggest directions for future research. We systematically searched Global Health, Embase (classic and Ovid), MEDLINE, Campbell Collaboration, Popline, Eldis, Web of Science, EconLit and Scopus. We generated 1661 studies for abstract and title screening. We full‐text screened 44 of these, plus 10 additional studies the authors were aware of. Only 12 studies fulfilled our inclusion criteria. We included English materials published between 1990 and 2012 that examined the relationship(s) of at least one women's empowerment domain and nutritional status among South Asian children. Data were extracted and synthesised within three domains of empowerment: control of resources and autonomy, workload and time, and social support. The results showed women's empowerment to be generally associated with child anthropometry, but the findings are mixed. Inter‐study differences in population characteristics, settings or methods/conceptualisations of women's empowerment, and the specific domains studied, likely contributed to these inconsistencies. This review also highlights that different women's empowerment domains may relate differently to child nutritional status. Future research should aim to harmonise definitions of women's empowerment, which key domains it should include, and how it is measured. Rigorous evaluation work is also needed to establish which policies and programmes facilitate women's empowerment and in turn, foster child nutritional well‐being. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1505962024-11-15T08:52:05Z Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature Cunningham, Kenda Ruel, Marie T. Ferguson, Elaine Uauy, Ricardo gender Women's disempowerment is hypothesised to contribute to high rates of undernutrition among South Asian children. However, evidence for this relationship has not been systematically reviewed. This review of empirical studies aims to: (1) synthesise the evidence linking women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia and (2) suggest directions for future research. We systematically searched Global Health, Embase (classic and Ovid), MEDLINE, Campbell Collaboration, Popline, Eldis, Web of Science, EconLit and Scopus. We generated 1661 studies for abstract and title screening. We full‐text screened 44 of these, plus 10 additional studies the authors were aware of. Only 12 studies fulfilled our inclusion criteria. We included English materials published between 1990 and 2012 that examined the relationship(s) of at least one women's empowerment domain and nutritional status among South Asian children. Data were extracted and synthesised within three domains of empowerment: control of resources and autonomy, workload and time, and social support. The results showed women's empowerment to be generally associated with child anthropometry, but the findings are mixed. Inter‐study differences in population characteristics, settings or methods/conceptualisations of women's empowerment, and the specific domains studied, likely contributed to these inconsistencies. This review also highlights that different women's empowerment domains may relate differently to child nutritional status. Future research should aim to harmonise definitions of women's empowerment, which key domains it should include, and how it is measured. Rigorous evaluation work is also needed to establish which policies and programmes facilitate women's empowerment and in turn, foster child nutritional well‐being. 2015-01-01 2024-08-01T02:52:28Z 2024-08-01T02:52:28Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150596 en Limited Access Wiley Cunningham, Kenda; Ruel, Marie T.; Ferguson, Elaine; and Uauy, Ricardo. 2015. Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature. Maternal and Child Nutrition 11(1): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12125 |
| spellingShingle | gender Cunningham, Kenda Ruel, Marie T. Ferguson, Elaine Uauy, Ricardo Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature |
| title | Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature |
| title_full | Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature |
| title_fullStr | Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature |
| title_short | Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature |
| title_sort | women s empowerment and child nutritional status in south asia a synthesis of the literature |
| topic | gender |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150596 |
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