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Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria por Eissler, Sarah, Heckert, Jessica, Myers, Emily, Seymour, Greg, Sinharoy, Sheela, Yount, Kathryn

“…Time use, or how women and men allocate their time, is an important element of empowerment processes. …”
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A Review of Measures and Indicators for Assessing the Relationship Between Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition por Olney, Deanna K., Shapleigh, S.

“…In this review we sought to understand how the relationship between women’s empowerment and women’s and children’s diet and nutrition outcomes have been conceptualized and studied. …”
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Use of soy isoflavones as alternative to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women in menopause por Edefuhr, Jenny

“…The current evidence indicates that there are few risks and many potential health benefits for women in menopause to increase their intakes of isoflavones. …”
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Unpacking power dynamics and women's economic empowerment in polygynous households in Burkina Faso por Eissler, Sarah, Heckert, Jessica, Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Sanou, Armande, Ganaba, Rasmané, Gelli, Aulo

“…In polygynous households, women are better able to maintain control over their earnings. …”
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How do women’s empowerment metrics measure up? A comparative analysis por Bageant, Elizabeth, Lentz, Erin, Narayanan, Sudha, Jensen, Nathaniel D., Lepariyo, Watson

“…The metrics have shared theoretical origins and are commonly used in the food, nutrition and health spaces to study rural women’s lives across low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Women’s social networks in resettlement areas: The case of Metema resettlement site, Ethiopia por Molla, D., Karrippai, R.S., Puskur, Ranjitha

“…This study is designed to understand the existing formal and informal social networks among re-settlers in Ethiopia. …”
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on rural women and men in Dang District, Nepal por Alvi, Muzna, Gupta, Shweta, Barooah, Prapti

“…To understand the impact of COVID-19 on rural women, we designed a longitudinal panel study with five rounds of phone survey data collection in Dang district in the mid-western region of Nepal. …”
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Land, trees, and women: evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Otsuka, Keijiro

“…As part of a larger multicountry study on property rights to land and trees, this study focuses on the evolution from customary land tenure with communal ownership toward individualized rights, and how this shift affects women and men differently.This study’s key contribution is its multilevel econometric analysis of efficiency and equity issues. …”
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Land, trees, and women: evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Otsuka, Keijiro

“…As part of a larger multicountry study on property rights to land and trees, this study focuses on the evolution from customary land tenure with communal ownership toward individualized rights, and how this shift affects women and men differently.This study’s key contribution is its multilevel econometric analysis of efficiency and equity issues. …”
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Women's vulnerabilities to climate insecurity and violence: Household-level evidence from Bangladesh por Suza, Ma, Warner, Jeroen, Pacillo, Grazia, Läderach, Peter, van Dijk, Han

“…This study investigates the often-overlooked interpersonal conflicts within the climate and security nexus, focusing on how climate impact exacerbates women's security risks on Hatiya Island, Bangladesh. …”
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Business literacy classes for enhancing Nepalese women’s access to knowledge, skills and resources por Rai, Renuka, Thapa, Krishna

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Is greater decisionmaking power of women associated with reduced gender discrimination in South Asia? por Smith, Lisa C., Byron, Elizabeth

“…Focusing on nutritional status, this paper presents the results of a study investigating whether increases in women’s power have a stronger positive influence on the nutritional status of their daughters than their sons. …”
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Is greater decisionmaking power of women associated with reduced gender discrimination in South Asia? por Smith, Lisa C., Byron, Elizabeth

“…The study concludes that, for the South Asia region as a whole, an increase in women’s decisionmaking power relative to men’s, if substantial, would be an effective force for reducing discrimination against girl children.…”
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Profiling women’s reality of risk and vulnerabilities in the Nigerian cassava agri-food system por Adeyemo, Temitayo A., Nwanze-Olaosebikan, Olamide, Omitoyin, Siyanbola A.

“…Study objective: Men and women experience different realities within agri-food systems. …”
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Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua por García, Maria Alejandra, Godek, Wendy, Twyman, Jennifer

“…This research contributes to the gender and development literature that seeks to understand and measure women’s agency (or empowerment) through the study of intra-household decision-making. …”
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How weather variability and extreme shocks affect women's participation in African agriculture por Nico, Gianluigi, Azzarri, Carlo, Ringler, Claudia

“…The study specifically focused on changes in the number of weekly hours worked in response to weather variability and climate extremes, and explored both the impact on women’s participation and their potential to mitigate the negative effects of these shocks.…”
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Local Fabrication and installation of Improved Fish Drying Racks to Promote Women’s Participation por Kilanga, Lucyphine, Kakwasha, Keagan, Kitogo, Lawrence, Simbila, Deogratius, Muzungaire, Lizzy, Lukanga, Editrudith, Mudege, Netsayi

“…The technology was selected based on a study on women’s fisherfolk’s resilience…”
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The impacts of rural outmigration on women’s empowerment: Evidence from Nepal, Senegal, and Tajikistan por Slavchevska, Vanya, Hillesland, Marya, Mane, Erdgin, Doss, Cheryl

“…Using primary survey data collected in Tajikistan, Nepal and Senegal, three countries with high male outmigration rates, this study analyzes the impacts of migration on the empowerment of women who remain in rural areas. …”
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Gender equality and women’s empowerment in rural transformation: From evidence to public action por Slavchevska, Vanya, Ndiaye, Tacko, Acosta, Mariola, Furst, Maurizio, Park, Clara, Rizk, Omnia, Sisto, Ilaria, Mane, Erdgin

“…To inform such models, this study critically assesses how rural transformation along with strategies to address climate change and nutrition, influence changes in women’s livelihoods and empowerment. …”
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A&T Bangladesh Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2015: Households - Pregnant Women por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset is the result of the household/pregnant women (PW) survey conducted to gather data for the Maternal Nutrition Baseline as a part of an impact evaluation study of Alive & Thrive (A&T) interventions delivered through Building Resources Across Communities' (BRAC) Essential Health Care (EHC) Program in Bangladesh. …”
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