Measuring Women’s Disempowerment in Agriculture in Pakistan

Nuzhat Ahmad () and Huma Khan ()

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Abstract: This paper calculates a Women’s Disempowerment Index to examine women’s control over production, resources, income, household decisions, and time burden. The index is based on a slightly modified methodology than that used for WEAI calculation by Alkire et al. (2012). The analysis is based on a sample of 2,090 households in the rural areas of Pakistan. Data used for the study were collected in three rounds of the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey from 2012–2014 by International Food Policy Research Institute/ Innovative Development Strategies for its Pakistan Strategy Support Program.

Keywords: women’s empowerment; gender gap; Pakistan; agriculture; rural areas; gender; policy interventions; women; rural areas; educational disparity; health; men; women; households (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-03
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