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Is there any relationship between gender inequality and nutrition? Experience from India

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https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-83753-180-620231004/full/html
https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-180-620231004
 
Title Is there any relationship between gender inequality and nutrition? Experience from India
 
Creator Kasala, K
Roy, R P
Das, A
 
Subject Food and Nutrition
India
Gender Research
 
Description Presently gender inequality and women's nutrition are the most concerning area of any development policy. Recent empirical evidence emphasizes that gender inequality decreases over time and the on the other hand percentage of overweight (OW) and obesity for women, especially in developing countries, increases over time. However, the relationship between these two phenomena (gender inequality and obesity) has rarely been investigated. Using time series yearly data (1990–2016) from the Nutrition Landscape Information Systems (NLiS) database of World Health Organisation (WHO) for India, we apply standard time series analysis including break test, stationarity test, cointegration test, and vector error correction model (VECM) to estimate the relationship between gender inequalities and percentage of females OW and obese. Our results show that there is a long-run relationship between these variables. Moreover, we also find that a decrease in gender inequality influences the increase in the number of females under OW and obese. In conclusion, the findings of this study reveal that, while elevating the position of women in society may be an important step toward combating the epidemic of OW and obesity, strategies must also tackle unhealthy habits that promote obesity.
 
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
 
Date 2023-08-14
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Identifier Kasala, K and Roy, R P and Das, A (2023) Is there any relationship between gender inequality and nutrition? Experience from India. In: Gender Inequality and its Implications on Education and Health. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 31-41. ISBN 978-1-83753-180-6