What complicates matters further is that in many states, women’s rights to a share of agricultural property as per the Hindu Succession Act stand in direct conflict with many states’ revenue codes that don’t provide equal treatment for men and women’s right to agricultural land. A one-of-a-kind study, conducted in nine Indian states by women’s land rights scholar Bina Agarwal that sought to measure both inter-gender gaps in land ownership and intra-gender differences between women found that despite significant advancement in inheritance laws, just 8.4 per cent of all females owned land, averaged across states.