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Women's Property Rights 101

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Owning property can be a woman’s ticket out of poverty. But few women understand their right to property or how to demand it. Economist Krista Jacobs of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) explains how owning property and assets benefit not just women, but their communities, too.

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