CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND ITS INFLUENCE ON CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES

Nodira Samandarova

Authors

Nodira Samandarova Teaching Assistant at Westminster International University in Tashkent

Keywords:

Women Empowerment, Child Nutritional Status, Stunted

Abstract

This research work focuses on the impact of women empowerment on nutritional status of children aged 0-59 months in Central Asian countries, namely Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. A cross-sectional data and Logistic regression technique is used to analyze the association of female empowerment with three dependent variables: stunting, wasting and underweight status of children. The results show that there is a strong and positive influence of women empowerment on their children’s nutritional outcome while it is influence is found to be insignificant on the wasting and underweight status of children in the Kyrgyz sample.

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