Female-Headed Households and Living Conditions in Latin America

Female-Headed Households and Homeownership in Latin America

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...

Female-headed households in Latin America and the Caribbean.

"Twenty-five Caribbean and Latin American nations were examined to determine the relationship between potential female headed families and other social indicators. Regression analysis reveals that women's labor market participation is associated with the proportion of families potentially headed by women. The share of girls in secondary school is also associated with the dependent variable. ...

Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison Prevalence and Patterns of Female-Headed Households in Latin America

Identifying and Prioritizing Ways of Empowering Female-Headed of Households

Introduction: Over the past decades, women have been more exposed to and sexual discrimination than men. This is because women did not have the capabilities and facilities needed to empower and reduce poverty. Empowerment is defined as essential for the empowerment of low-income people to achieve their rights. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and introduce women's empowerment methods. Me...

Health related quality of life in the female-headed households

Background and aims: According to psychological research female-headed households have a lot of physical and mental problems because they experience stress and anxiety more than the other women in general population. The aim of this study was to determine the quality of life and the associated factors in female-headed households under the Welfare Organization coverage of Ilam Province. Me...