Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India

Deere, Carmen Diana; Oduro, Abena D.; Swaminathan, Hema; Doss, Cheryl R.

doi:10.1007/s10888-013-9241-z

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“…Recent research by Kristjanson et al (2014) on gender, asset management, and climate change is a definite step towards improving our understanding of gender and vulnerability to climate change. Swaminathan and colleagues have also published an extensive set of working papers and other materials on household asset management (including livestock) as part of the Gender Asset Gap Project (see Deere et al, 2013 andDoss et al, 2013 for an overview of the multicounty comparison of wealth and household decision-making as well as a discussion of methods for assessing gender and household assets). Despite these advances, there is a need for further systematic research that examines the mechanisms shaping individual experiences of climate change among livestock holders and provides a detailed view of the nexus between gender, climate change, and food security.…”

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Climate change through a gendered lens: Examining livestock holder food security

McKune

Borresen

Young

et al. 2015

Global Food Security

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Climate change through a gendered lens: Examining livestock holder food security

McKune

Borresen

Young

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Global Food Security

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“…Subsequently, new research in West Africa has shown that there may be a small degree of joint asset ownership, up to 25 % in Ghana(Deere et al 2013). The endline questionnaire followed the same protocol for collecting male and female asset ownership, for comparability with the baseline.…”

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Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia

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Rubin²,

Manfre³

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Strengthening the abilities of smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly women farmers, to produce for both home and the market is currently a development priority. In many contexts, ownership of assets is strongly gendered, reflecting existing gender norms and limiting women's ability to invest in more profitable livelihood strategies such as market-oriented agriculture. Yet the intersection between women's asset endowments and their ability to participate in and benefit from agricultural interventions receives minimal attention. This paper explores changes in gender relations and women's assets in four agricultural interventions that promoted high value agriculture with different degrees of market-orientation. Findings suggest that these dairy and horticulture projects can successfully involve women and increase production, income and the stock of household assets. In some cases, women were able to increase their control over production, income and assets; however in most cases men's incomes increased more than women's and the gender-asset gap did not decrease. Gender-and asset-based barriers to participation in projects as well as gender norms that limit women's ability to accumulate and retain control over assets both contributed to the results. Comparing experiences across the four projects, especially where projects implemented adaptive measures to encourage gender-equitable outcomes, provides lessons for gender-responsive projects targeting existing and emerging value chains for high value products. Other targeted support to women farmers may also be needed to promote their acquisition of the physical assets required to expand production or enter other nodes of the value chain.

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“…They provide an interesting contrast for the study of IPV since the gender wealth gap differs considerably between the two countries. In Ecuador, married women and those in consensual unions own 44 percent of gross couple wealth, whereas in Ghana they own only 19 percent (Carmen Diana Deere, Abena D. Oduro, Hema Swaminathan, and Cheryl Doss 2013). Moreover, the two countries are governed by different marital and inheritance regimes, with partial community property the default regime in Ecuador and separation of property the norm in Ghana.…”

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Women's Wealth and Intimate Partner Violence: Insights from Ecuador and Ghana

Oduro¹,

Deere²,

Catanzarite³

2015

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) by men against their partners is one of the most glaring indicators of women's lack of empowerment. Drawing upon the 2010 Ecuador Household Asset Survey (EAFF) and the 2010 Ghana Household Asset Survey (GHAS), nationally representative surveys for Ecuador and Ghana, respectively, this study investigates the relationship between women's ownership of assets and physical and emotional abuse by spouses against currently partnered women over the previous twelve months. It uses the value of a woman's total assets compared to those of her partner as the main proxy for a woman's bargaining power. Differentiating between physical and emotional violence in both countries, the study finds that women's share of couple wealth is significantly associated with lower odds of physical violence in Ecuador and emotional violence in Ghana. Moreover, the association between women's share of couple wealth and IPV is contingent on the household's position in the wealth distribution.

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Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India

Cited by 134 publications

References 12 publications

Climate change through a gendered lens: Examining livestock holder food security

Climate change through a gendered lens: Examining livestock holder food security

Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia

Women's Wealth and Intimate Partner Violence: Insights from Ecuador and Ghana

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