While it is too early to know the outcome of the current global financial and economic crisis, studies of earlier crises highlighted their gender-specific impacts (UN-ESCAP, 2003). Regardless of whether men’s or women’s jobs are most affected by crisis, women spend more time in both paid and unpaid work to offset the impact on household incomes. When meals have to be forgone, it is most often women who reduce their food consumption to ensure that children get sufficient nutrition.