By empowering women in countries with high poverty levels, we can improve the health status of the family because:

By empowering women in countries with high poverty levels, we can improve the health status of the family because  women will give food to their children first even during starvation. This is very important because  in many countries with high poverty levels women are the ones farming.
Women participating more fully in decision-making in countries that have reduced hunger and malnutrition by education and assisting the poor.