Purpose – To discuss the gender dimension of migration and human rights, and to provide an assessment of how to improve human rights protections for migrant women workers in janitorial services and night clubs across registered and unregistered migrant women workers in North Cyprus....

Purpose – To provide and assess trends on the status of women in Bangladesh in terms of key macro level indicators namely, women's labour force participation, educational attainments and earnings vis-à-vis men. Design/methodology/approach – The trends in women's workforce participation,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to open up the Anglo-centred argument in gender and accounting by exploring the relationship of women and accounting in a different social and cultural context. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on in-depth ethnographical studies to explore...

Purpose – The inability of public accounting practices to retain female auditors is of concern to the profession. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors associated with the actual turnover decisions made by female auditors in the public accounting profession....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically review the literature to assess the relevance of the S-shaped model of family labor supply for industrialized countries. Design/methodology/approach – Studies use a wide variety of methodologies and therefore are not readily comparable,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the factors that influence the decision of married women (in the age group of 16-60 years) to participate in labor force activities. Design/methodology/approach – This is an empirical study employing the non-linear maximum likelihood...

Purpose – In this paper the aim is to focus on the individual distribution of gender wage discrimination in Spain and Italy, relying upon the development of Jenkins' distributional approach proposed in Del Rio et al. Design/methodology/approach – The authors estimate the degree of individual...

Purpose – This paper aims to study the relation between the employment of mothers and the activities of children with the aim of contributing to the understanding of child work in India. Design/methodology/approach – Multinomial logit specifications of children's activities and mothers'...

Purpose – This paper is an attempt to analyze the study of low female work participation rate in Pakistan due to the religious, traditional, cultural values, the colonial ideology and the evolution of social institution that restrain women entry into the labour market....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare typical social problems in Germany and Japan in the context of weavers and female weavers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares Gerhardt Hauptmann's Weavers (1892) with Wakizo Hosoi's The Tragic History of Female Weavers (1925)....