in thinking that they achieve freedom from religion by doing so. In a 2006 landmark decision the Supreme Court held that … jurisdiction over the dissolution of civil marriages of Jews residing in Israel. The Court’s decision was based on halachic …

worst effects of poverty. This paper explores an ancient harbinger of mass education, among Jews in the Roman empire, the … centre of Jewish religion, as well as the Temple priesthood and Jewish aristocracy, leaving the authority of the Torah to its … teachers. The sacred culture of education came to dominate the lives of most European Jews until 1789 and was instrumental in …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

The study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in … Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary …% of men face time constraints. Women's time poverty worsens when the burden of simultaneous care work is taken into …

poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income …