Coping with food and nutrition insecurity in Zimbabwe: does household head gender matter?

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 4 Food security by gender of the household head

Variable	Female [F]	Male [M]	Difference [F – M]
Hunger score	0.525	0.474	0.051***
Poor food consumption score	0.202	0.169	0.033***
Never consumes minerals	0.357	0.343	0.015***
Never consumes proteins	0.198	0.154	0.044***
Never consumes iron	0.445	0.376	0.068***
Consumption coping strategy index	22.066	20.558	1.508***
Livelihoods coping strategy index	0.521	0.578	− 0.057***

Notes: The fourth column shows the results of two-tailed t-test for the difference in the means
***, **, and * indicate the 1, 5, and 10% levels of significance