gender inequality in the spread of HIV/AIDS in India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses data from National Aids … status of women in India. Policymakers need to focus on gender inequality in order to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in India … highlights the problems facing women in deterring the spread of HIV/AIDS in India. The status and empowerment of women are …

political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that … candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an … institutionalized demand-side barriers rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints …

policy insights. This paper first describes key employment trends in India by gender. Then the potential determinants of …The low and declining female labour force participation rate in India despite strong growth over the past decade is … inclusive growth, and wellbeing. Assessing determinants of the labour force participation of women in India can open important …

and especially for women. <P>Specific gender policies will be needed to enlarge economic opportunities for women and to … policies. More and better jobs for women in India could raise growth by about 2 percentage points a year over time. This … Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of India (http://www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-india …

This paper examines the nature and determinants of female entrepreneurship in India based on survey data. The first … part assesses basic characteristics of female entrepreneurship in India, while the subsequent sections analyse key … determinants of female entrepreneurship based on the literature, and test their importance at the state level in India with the …

Australia it remains around 17%. Interestingly, the gender pay gap is relatively small for the young but increases as men and … explain these wage patterns? And what can governments do to speed up wage convergence to close the gender pay gap? Clearly …, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …

2007, we find persistent differences in the gender compositions of both faculty and graduate students across departments …

human capital earnings model suggest that differences in job performance and institution-specific gender segregation explain …'s head basketball coaches. Women's head coaches of either gender earn about 50% of the base salary of the average men's head … coach's gender, thus prestige from men's sports, customer discrimination, and the preferences of athletic directors may …

This essay disentangles the inequalities in the take-up of non-standard work by gender as well as the gender …