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The policy brief includes the key findings from our study which covered three departments in the Dry Corridor: Choluteca, Francisco Morazán, and El Paraíso. We found that since women are experiencing hunger earlier and at more severe levels than men, early warning systems that don’t collect gender-disaggregated data are missing vital signs of crisis.
- On average, the number of women experiencing crisis-level food insecurity in the areas we studied is 6 times higher than the number of men.
- 92% of women said that they don’t have enough savings to cover one month of spending, compared to 62% of men.
- In qualitative interviews, women explained that even when they had opportunities to earn income, getting a job often meant leaving children at home alone, where they feared they would be at risk of abuse or violence.