women around the world still continue to struggle with gender-based disadvantages, much has changed for the better and at a …

In the past 50 years women's legal status has improved all over the world. But many laws still make it difficult for … women to fully participate in economic life whether by getting jobs or starting businesses. Discriminatory rules bar women … from certain jobs, restrict access to capital for women-owned firms and limit women's capacity to make legal decisions …

Gender inequality-the differential access to opportunity and security for women and girls-has become an important and … necessity. It analyzes the potential for women's greater economic contribution to the region's new development model, which is … impediments to women's increased labor force participation and empowerment, and it suggests a way forward in developing an agenda …

inevitably causes debate and has proponents, men and women, who argue on both sides. During preparation of the gender equality … law in Vietnam, several options were presented for changing the retirement age of women. However, the National Assembly … issue. The main objective of this study is to provide economic and social arguments on different options for women …

Women, business and the law focuses on this critical piece of the puzzle, objectively highlighting differentiations on … a job, providing incentives to work, building credit and going to court. Women, business and the law describes regional … opportunities for women. For men and women throughout the developing world, the chance to start and run a business or get a good job …

generally have better access to the internet than women, but in some countries a higher percentage of women accesses the … internet . The gender gap favoring women (expressed in percentage points) is particularly significant in the Dominican Republic …. Similarly, a noticeable gap in favor of women's internet usage can be seen in Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Uruguay …

empowerment of women (the third MDG) and the special problems of fragile states, where extreme poverty is increasingly … equality and the empowerment of women are central to the development agenda. This is because gender equality makes good …