THE GENDER ASSET GAP: WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?

By C. D. Deere, Cheryl R. Doss. 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence (2017, unknown): “In general, men own more and higher value assets than women (Deere and Doss, 2006; Deere et al., 2013; Quisumbing and Maluccio, 2003).”
Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America: Female Owners vs Household Heads (2012, background): “Unfortunately, such an analysis must wait until household surveys collect individual-level data on a greater number of assets than they do currently as well as more reliable data on their valuation.9”
Examining the gender wealth gap (2010, background): “…and there is not much that can be said about the financial well-being of married women (with respect to wealth holdings) although a growing body of literature emphasizes the importance of looking at intra-household inequality (e.g. Pahl (2001), Allmendinger et al. (2006), Deere and Doss (2006)).”
Widowhood and Asset Inheritance in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Empirical Evidence from 15 Countries (2012, unknown): “A global review of evidence and further discussion of the typologies included within these categories is found in Deere and Doss (2006).”
From protection to production: productive impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer scheme (2012, background): “Although we do not provide a full assessment of this literature in this paper, Deere and Doss (2006), Peterman et al. (2010) and Quisumbing et al. (2011) review the evidence on gender and asset ownership, Quisumbing et al. (2011) review the gender dimension of response to shocks, while FAO et al.…”
Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India (2013, background): “In broad terms three main types of marital regimes can be distinguished: full community property, partial community property and separation of property (see [11, 12]).”
Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework: (2011, background): “…measures of income and consumption, not only are assets unequally distributed between rich and poor, they are also unequally distributed between men and women, nationally as well as within communities and households (Deere and Doss 2006; Deere and Diaz 2011; Swaminathan, Suchitra, and Lahoti 2011).”
Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia (2015, background): “Attention to assets in the gender literature is a relatively new area of inquiry (e.g., Deere and Doss 2006; Meinzen-Dick et al. 2011).”