This study examines the role of women's intra-household status relative to men in children's food security in Pakistan. Data from the 1991 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (PIHS) yield a measure of evidence of a positive relation between women's intra-household status and children's food...

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women?s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit, plays a role in children?s food security,...