Promoting gender impacts
through hands-on research

Promoting gender impacts
through hands-on research

Promoting gender impacts
through hands-on research

Promoting gender impacts
through hands-on research

Promoting gender impacts
through hands-on research

Research

Explore how the Gender Impacts Lab conducts research that seeks to identify gaps and determine entry points to effectively implement gender and youth responsive research, evaluations, and interventions.  

Gender Tools & Surveys

Utilize tools adapted by the Gender Impacts Lab that are designed to help you gain awareness and understanding of the barriers facing minority and vulnerable communities, both locally and globally.

Our Work

The Gender Impacts Lab is committed to addressing gender inequities by promoting community development and empowering women, men, and youth through hands-on research to improve the lives of families and communities worldwide.

The Gender Impacts Lab strives to provide high quality research that promotes global gender equity by addressing issues to close gender and empowerment gaps.

About Us

The Gender Impacts Lab’s research addresses health and related disparities among minorities and vulnerable populations locally and globally. The Gender Impacts Lab conducts research for development that seeks to identify gaps and determine entry points to effectively implement gender and youth responsive research, evaluations, and interventions.

A woman preparing food in a small pot on the ground with her sleeping baby strapped to her back.

Our Goal

To continue building interdisciplinary partnerships to develop and implement culturally tailored novel research instruments and to shift cultural norms that increase opportunities for resilient individuals, households, and communities.

Mississippi Health Disparities

0 %
of teen mothers in the US who have a child before age 18 do not earn a high school diploma

Teen Pregnancy

Graphic of Mississippi health-related statistics
0 %
of teen girls in the US who have dropped out of school identify pregnancy or parenthood as the primary reason for dropping out
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ebaby4u

Dr. Kathleen Ragsdale discusses her ebaby4u project at an SEC Symposium. Because almost no online programs exist for minority teen mothers, Dr. Ragsdale saw a clear need to create a website and videos to provide culturally relevant information on “best practices” to optimize healthy food choices for infants.

Gender and Development Disparities

Gender

0 %
of the world's poor are women due to economic inequality.

Youth

0 %
of the total field work in crop agriculture in Africa is done by women.
Graphic of Africa surrounded by statistics about women in agriculture in Africa.

Agriculture

0 %
of agricultural plots in Ghana are jointly owned by men and women.

Affiliations

The Gender Impacts Lab is associated with Mississippi State University (MSU) and the Social Science Research Center (SSRC).

CONTACT US

Mississippi State University

Social Science Research Center

1 Research Blvd #102A

Starkville, MS 39759

Email: genderimpactslab@ssrc.msstate.edu