“…Nepal is a developing LMIC with a history of gender inequality. While strides have been made towards codifying women's rights and closing the country's gender gaps in education, politics, and health (Pandey, 2010; Mishra and Sam, 2016; Lotter, 2018; World Bank Group, 2019; Pradhan, Meinzen‐Dick, and Theis, 2019; Koirala, 2022; Poudel, 2022), disparity persists. The country ranked 96 out of 146 in the 2022 Global Gender Gap Index (World Economic Forum, 2022), and practices that disproportionately harm women, such as child marriage and menstruation isolation, take place in many parts of the country (Pandey, 2017).…”