Although women’s empowerment and gender equality are associated with better maternal and child nutrition outcomes, recent systematic reviews find inconclusive evidence. This paper applies a comparable methodology to data on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within the same household, from six countries […]
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI): Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Women play a critical and potentially transformative role in agricultural growth in developing countries, but they face persistent obstacles and economic constraints limiting further inclusion in agriculture. A workshop on "The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI): Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches" was conducted on December 4, 2019 for up-and-coming researchers of the Ethiopia Strategy Support […]