1. Gender disparities in the global economy
There are great disparities between rights of men and of women to take hold of lands, even the women cultivated in that land not any less. ... As unpaid labourers on their husbands' land, while also cultivating separate plots in their own right, African women usually lose the rights to land following the death of their spouse. Widows and divorced women have virtually no tenure or inheritance rights with which to ensure food security for themselves or their children. ... The policies must not only be "engendered", i.e. focussing on women's issues or targeting women's reproducti...
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