have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India …’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in this part of the country, are going to get more and more employments both in … bring in miseries to the women folks. However, in the long run, women in this region are going to gain the lion’s share of …

Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the … right to vote and the right to stand for election (Ballington & Karam, 2005), gender equality in terms of representation in … representation of women at the level of the smallest unit of Philippine government—the village or barangay. Data comparison—within a …

ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … barriers are linked negatively to the start-up decision, stronger perceptions of financial barriers among women are having a …

‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of … women from ‘welfare’, to equity’ to anti-poverty’ to ‘efficiency’ and finally to ‘empowerment’. The policy reorientation …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …

female entrepreneurs. The research has three main objectives: (a) to examine the impact of gender education on …

Labour market flexibility continues to be one of the key issues in the reform of labour markets in welfare states. The …