Record Topic: Widows
Differentiation of Women’s Land Tenure Security in Southern Africa
Full citation: Paradza, G.G., "Differentiation of Women's Land Tenure Security in South Africa," 12 ILC WORKING PAPER (March 2011).
Women’s Access to Land and Household Bargaining Power: A comparative action-research project in patrilineal and matrilineal societies in Malawi
Assisting Kayole Widows in Gaining Control to Family Land: Special focus on widows married in Rachuonyo and Siaya Districts in Luo Nyanza
The Perils of Widowhood
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Solomon Islands Wills, Probate and Administration Act
Ghana Registration of Births and Deaths
Cote d’Ivoire Succession Law
By Karen Chen
Gender Inequality in Inheritance Laws: The Case of Agricultural Land in India
A Landesa paper that "explores the legal complexities related to inheritance of agricultural land by women in India."
Women’s Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India
Full citation: Deininger, K., Goyal, A. and Nagarajan, H., "Women's Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India," 46 THE JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOUCES 2 (2013). – Using inheritance patterns over three generations of individuals, this study assesses the impact of changes in the Hindu Succession Act, which grant daughters equal coparcenary birth rights in joint family property, that were denied to daughters in the past. The study shows that the amendment significantly increased daughters’ likelihood to inherit land, but that even after the amendment, substantial bias persists. There were no detectable changes before the legal amendment, with a […]