Agency is the single most important factor shaping women’s dietary quality, not food availability or household income.
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Women in Makoko, a floating slum in Nigeria, face challenges funding their fish trade. Literacy and financial inclusion programmes can make a difference.
Our new research suggests that while a break up, on average, reduces men’s disposable household income by 5%, on average women’s household income decreases by almost 30%.
Unresolved historical injustices, deepened in new forms, undermined compliance with Ghana’s COVID lockdown.
The average Nigerian woman or child faces a host of hindrances in accessing health services.
Drug abuse among women farmers in Adamawa State, north east Nigeria, is rising.
Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
Young, poor, single and a mother of two: This is the profile of most women in the US and Northern Ireland who seek financial assistance to help pay for an abortion.
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Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Professor of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Assistant Professor of Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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