Asset ownership supports social mobility. It influences a person’s ability to move out of poverty, underpins household livelihoods and supports coping strategies and investment. Land is the most important asset in low income developing countries and most people gain access to land through inheritance. However, ownership and control of land is highly gendered and women hold only 1-2% of individually titled land. Women rarely inherit and access land through their fathers, husbands, sons or brothers. This has implications for women’s agency and well-being and also in their ability to invest in their children with implications for the intergenerational transmission of poverty.