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 …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …

Abstract This paper is concerned with exploring some of the gender implications of certain long term trends which have … dominated the world economy in the post World War II period. It analyzes how these trends affect men and women, and to what … extent if any, they are in turn affected by gender. The paper concentrates on the following trends: - unprecedented growth of …

2009 ist eine Diskussion darüber entbrannt, inwieweit die derzeitige Finanzkrise Einfluss auf die mittelfristigen … Zeitreihenmodellen abgeschätzt. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass das Niveau des Produktionspotenzials aufgrund der Finanzkrise … durch eine Stagnation des technischen Fortschritts verursacht wird. Die Auswirkungen der Finanzkrise auf die mittelfristige …

home as well as at work. For example, 45 per cent of the measurable Gross Domestic Income comes from the work of women in … the world’s richest countries. However, the women are discriminated both at work and at home. Further, they are vulnerable … to conflicts, wars and terrorism. The women in Eritrea are fighting for their rights and freedom. This paper explores the …

the same quantity of farm products. Historically, women have been the managers of natural resources as they are dependent … rendered them scarce. The rural women collect over 28% of all energy consumed in India in the form of firewood. Most of the 140 …-scale migration to urban areas. Women are being forced to take up more drudgerous jobs as a source of livelihood as most of the …