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Blog
August 7, 2018
New paper on relationship between autonomy and decision making contributes to understanding and measurement of women’s empowerment
Despite widespread agreement on the importance of women’s empowerment, ambiguity still exists about how best to define and measure it. Authors of the new paper use a framework developed by psychologists and data from Bangladesh and Ghana to examine if intrahousehold decision making (sole or joint) is correlated with autonomous motivation.
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Blog
June 11, 2018
Journal article: Women’s empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity
The new paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya and women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the abbreviated version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.
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Blog
May 18, 2018
Do men and women benefit equally from technology adoption? New paper explores
Researchers have sought to understand what keeps women’s observed rates of agricultural technology adoption low. But what happens after a new technology is adopted by a household? Do women’s lives really become better? Are they more empowered? A new paper explores these questions using the example of adopting small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania.
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Blog
May 4, 2018
Gender research in PIM: rural transformation, productivity, and women’s empowerment
In this video, Cheryl Doss, leader of our “Cross-cutting Gender Research and Coordination” flagship, talks about the three big issues the flagship is focusing on, and the team’s contribution to developing methods for collecting sex-disaggregated data for better gender analysis.
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Webinar
March 23, 2018
Webinar: Women in agriculture: Four myths
Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of the 17 SDGs require indicators related to gender dynamics. Despite the need for reliable indicators, stylized facts on women, agriculture, and the environment persist. During this webinar we will focus on four gender myths: 1) 70% of the world’s poor are women; 2) Women produce 60 to 80% of the world’s food; 3) Women own 1% of the world’s land; and 4) Women are better stewards of the environment.
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Blog
March 7, 2018
CGIAR on International Women’s Day – a day to educate and to celebrate
In advance of International Women’s Day this year we spoke with our Director Karen Brooks about the gender research in CGIAR, its role in PIM, and why, in Karen's opinion, "quality, opportunism (in the good sense of the term), and voice" are important for the gender research to achieve the greatest impact.
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Blog
March 5, 2018
Webinar: Cash transfer programs and intimate partner violence – Lessons from 3 case studies around the globe
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most pervasive form of violence globally—with 1 in 3 women physically or sexually abused by a partner in her lifetime. Several recent studies find evidence that cash transfer programs, targeted primarily to women, can reduce IPV. In this webinar, we will describe a framework for potential pathways through which transfers can affect IPV and showcase results from 3 studies (Ecuador, Bangladesh, and Mali).
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Blog
February 16, 2018
Innovative approaches to gender and land tenure
Land is instrumental for human development and poverty alleviation in both forested and agricultural landscapes. However, gender inequalities highly affect
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EnGendering Data Blog
February 6, 2018
How to validate measurements of women’s empowerment over time
Kathryn Yount is sharing lessons learned when faced with the challenge to validate measures of women’s empowerment across contexts and over time.
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