Abstract There has been a rapid expansion in the use of payments for environmental services (PES) as key conservation finance policy. However, there is insufficient understanding how gender can affect PES implementation and outcomes. We present results from case study Viet Nam, where national programme place decade. Through panel household survey data, focus groups interviews, we examined women...

Attaining economic parity and reducing poverty between the genders are critical steps toward attaining United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Despite progress, women in US still earn USD 0.83 for every 1.00 that a man earns. With rising shares of single/female-headed households with children American society recent years, such gaps earnings exacerbate misery living households. In 2019, ...

nowadays, the female participation rate is known as one of the reasons of societies' development. hence, this study explores some of the effective factors such as education, marital status, age, and female-headed households on female participation probability in labor market. to achieve this goal, by using micro data of household survey in 2011, which is carried out by the statistical cent...

BACKGROUND & AIM Women heading their households are the ones who lead their life alone. Burden of life probably decreases the quality of life of women-headed households. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between quality of life of women-headed households and some related factors in Iran. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional study and 180 women-head households were sele...

Home gardens are important for enhancing food and nutritional security for HIV/AIDS-afflicted rural households through dietary diversity. Female-headed households may depend on home gardens more than average households to supply and supplement the household’s diet when labour is constrained for field cropping. This paper compares household characteristics, dietary diversity, labour allocated to...

BACKGROUND Nepal has seen substantial improvements in its reproductive health outcomes, but infant and child mortality are still high. This study attempts to examine the prevalence and factors influencing the experience of child death of mothers who have given birth during a five-year period. More specifically, this paper aims to investigate whether household headship has an impact on child dea...

Female-headed households are at greater risk of slipping into poverty than male-headed households. Indeed, sex and marital status of the head of household are the most important determinants of a family's poverty status in the US. Divorce, separation, death of a husband, and out-of-wedlock births can lead to female headship. Transfer payments, especially the Aid to Families with Dependent Ch...