The purpose of this study was to examine the female-headed household empowerment based on social-cognitive career counseling and its impact on promoting their career self-efficacy and future orientation (time perspective, anticipation of future consequences, planning ahead). This quasi-experimental research had a pretest-posttest control group follow-up design. The statistical population of the...

Climate change impact and risks on agricultural livelihood affect women men disproportionately often to the disadvantage of girls. Consequently, this study assessed gender perspectives vulnerability climate farming households at Ikpayongo community in Gwer local government area, Benue State, Nigeria using descriptive approach. The identified a total 120 male-headed female-headed across four nei...

One direct way in which agricultural input subsidies can provide social protection to the poor is by targeting the poor with very high subsidies to ensure that they are able to access inputs. Although the Malawi Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme (MAISP) generally targets resource-poor households, the targeting guidelines also accord special consideration to vulnerable groups such as child-he...

female-headed households and the women in charge of them are one of the most vulnerable chunks of a society, often highly affected by divorces, passing or disability of their husband, drug-abuse of their partner, or immigration of their husbands. that is why this study is focused on bottlenecks of parenting and children socialization for female-headed households, which is divided into five subc...

Mobile money, a service that allows monetary value to be stored on a mobile phone and sent to other users via text messages, has been adopted by the vast majority of Kenyan households. We estimate that access to the Kenyan mobile money system M-PESA increased per capita consumption levels and lifted 194,000 households, or 2% of Kenyan households, out of poverty. The impacts, which are more pron...

The gender of the household head has often been treated as an exogenous determinant of housing tenure. We argue that several determinants of homeownership also affect household headship and that failing to explicitly account for this endogeneity leads to inconsistent results. Using individual level data for Chile, Honduras and Nicaragua we show that although on average women have lower probabil...

This paper sets out to answer two questions. First, are poor females at a significant disadvantage compared to males and non-poor females in terms of welfare indicators of such as health, education, nutrition, labor force participation, and time use? Second, are female-headed households over-represented among the poor? To answer these questions and maintain consistency in the definition of pove...

This study examines the gender-differentiated effects of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) on households in Zimbabwe during 1991. Interviews and focus groups were conducted among 120 randomly selected households in Kambuzuma, a densely populated suburb of Harare with mostly Black residents with a considerable range in income. Interviews were conducted in mid-1991 and reinterviews were con...