BACKGROUND Although most studies on female-headed families focus on women's access to social support, the associations between social capital and quality of life in these families are unclear in many societies (such as Iran). This study aimed to determine the associations between social capital and quality of life in Iranian female headed families. METHODS This cross-sectional study was perfo...

Abstract Standard welfare comparisons between female-headed households (FHHs) and male-headed (MHHs) have largely ignored two confounding factors: marital status (affecting access to assets markets) heterogeneity in household demographics (with bearing on economies of scale consumption). Both influence are correlated with sex headship. As judged by the usual per capita measures, FHHs lower pove...

Substantial growth in Malian milk supply is necessary to meet rising demand for dairy products while also improving the livelihoods of producers and strengthening competitiveness sector against imports. We applied a Cragg two-tiered model nationally representative dataset farming households examine factors influencing market participation decisions. Four key findings corresponding policy implic...

This article re-examines energy and nutrition available to British working-class households in the late 1930s using individual household expenditure consumption data. We use these data address a number of questions. First, what was extent malnutrition Britain? Second, how did incidence change over time? Third, were nutritional consequences school meals milk schemes? conclude that, for working h...

A woman is the companion of man gifted with equal mental capacities. She has right to participate in minutest details activities man, and she same freedom liberty as he. By sheer force a vicious custom, even most ignorant worthless men have been enjoying superiority over women which they do not deserve ought have, “Women hold up half sky – Chinese proverb long more aspiration than fact. In deve...