  Gender inequality is a significant concern in many cultures, as women face
significant barriers to asset acquisition particularly land ownership and
control. Land acquisition and land tenure security are complex issues that
affect various cultural groups differently, leading to disparities in access
and ownership especially when superimposed with other socio-economic issues
like gender inequality. Measuring the severity of these issues across different
cultural groups is challenging due to variations in cultural norms,
expectations and effectiveness of the measurement framework to correctly assess
the level of severity. While nominal measures of gender asset gap provide
valuable insights into land acquisition and tenure security issues, they do not
fully capture the nuances of cultural differences and the impact of
governmental and corporate policies that influence gender disparity in land
ownership and control. The proposed framework aims to fill this gap by
incorporating cultural and policy factors in developing a new measurement
framework equipped with a more robust, comprehensive metric to standardize the
approach to assessing the severity of gender asset disparity in a general sense
but with a focus on land acquisition and tenure security to engender more
effective interventions and policy recommendations.
