Do cash transfer programs targeted at low-income women influence their preferences for redistribution and essential public goods, such as schools, hospitals, and roads in developing countries, with uneven service provision? We answer this question by analysing the impacts of Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), one of the largest cash transfer programs targeted at women in the Global South. We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate program effects on women’s attitudes towards redistributive policies and public goods provision. In contrast to theories that posit that citizens in high-poverty settings will prefer more redistributive welfare programs, we find that program recipients of the BISP cash transfer actually reduce their preferences for redistribution. However, we find that this shift in preferences is not only driven by the income effect generated by the receipt of regular cash transfers from the state. Instead, we find that in households in which women’s agency is not challenged by senior household members, program recipients see greater utility of cash transfers in contrast to other forms of public good’s provision. Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature that pays attention to how women’s intra-household status may influence their preferences for redistributive policies in developing democracies.