Intrahousehold dynamics in South Asia: Understanding the relationships between women's empowerment, task sharing, decision making, and diets among women

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Georgiaen
cg.contributor.affiliationTribhuvan Universityen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeTransforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.countryNepal
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NP
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierNeha Kumar: 0000-0001-7982-3277en
cg.creator.identifierAgnes Quisumbing: 0000-0002-5429-1857en
cg.creator.identifierSwetha Manohar: 0000-0003-4042-8952en
cg.creator.identifierArchis Banerjee: 0000-0002-0831-304Xen
cg.creator.identifierAlka Chauhan: 0000-0001-9391-620Xen
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.08.25320196en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Nutrition, Diets, and Health Uniten
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Uniten
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Nehaen
dc.contributor.authorQuisumbing, Agnes R.en
dc.contributor.authorManohar, Swethaen
dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Archisen
dc.contributor.authorGupta, Shivanien
dc.contributor.authorChauhan, Alkaen
dc.contributor.authorPatwardhan, Sharvarien
dc.contributor.authorKoirala, Umaen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-10T21:20:48Zen
dc.date.available2025-01-10T21:20:48Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/168856
dc.titleIntrahousehold dynamics in South Asia: Understanding the relationships between women's empowerment, task sharing, decision making, and diets among womenen
dcterms.abstractDespite the growing evidence on the role of women in agriculture and nutrition, interlinkages between empowerment among women, gendered task allocation, and nutrition are rarely studied together. Using data from the Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA), a household survey that used a plate-to-farm assessment approach in three countries (Bangladesh, India and Nepal), the paper investigates the associations between empowerment of women, gendered task allocation, decision-making among women, and diets among women. Our findings reveal complex and context-specific differences in associations between task allocation, decision-making and empowerment among. While agency in decision-making among women is positively associated with empowerment in all three country contexts, associations between gendered task allocation and empowerment vary. The share of tasks performed by females, particularly in agriculture and food preparation) is positively associated with empowerment among women, but the proportion of tasks shared equally between males and females does not necessarily empower women. Gendered task allocation and empowerment among women are not significantly associated with diets of women in the three countries, owing to the greater importance of broader socio-economic and context-specific factors such as wealth, education, and regional factors in explaining the variance in dietary outcomes. These findings highlight the need to take a holistic approach that addresses gender norms and household resource constraints to improving empowerment of women, while also addressing local accessibility/availability of nutritious foods to enhance the quality of diets of women.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKumar, Neha; Quisumbing, Agnes; Manohar, Swetha; Banerjee, Archis; Gupta, Shivani; Chauhan, Alka; Patwardhan, Sharvari; and Koirala, Uma. 2025. Intrahousehold dynamics in South Asia: understanding the relationships between women's empowerment, task sharing, decision making, and diets among women. MedRxiv Preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.08.25320196en
dcterms.extent42 p.en
dcterms.issued2025-01-09en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherMedRxiven
dcterms.relationhttps://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/open-access-agrifood-system-data-from-4000-households-across-bangladesh-india-and-nepal/en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138820en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138821en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138822en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138823en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138780en
dcterms.relationhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5082127en
dcterms.subjectintrahousehold relationsen
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen
dcterms.subjectwomen's empowermenten
dcterms.subjectdieten
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjecthousehold surveysen
dcterms.subjectgender normsen
dcterms.typePreprint

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