Purpose – Although the labor force participation rates for women in the USA have steadily risen during the last three … women opting for part-time jobs. Recognizing the importance of social change in explaining certain features of the labor … market, this paper aims to explore whether a broad change in social attitudes towards women's roles may form the basis for …

scheduled tribe women in India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses data from the Census of India, Department of … women among the tribal groups in the northeastern states has important effects on the literacy rates, enrollment ratios and … among tribal women in India. However, large differences in literacy rates in the various states in India show that social …

Zimbabwe, it also establishes a clear link between MFIs and both poverty eradication and the empowerment and equality of women …

, the significant contribution of women in sustaining socio-economic wellbeing of their families has been neglected and … taken for granted by the society as a whole. This has resulted not only in gross underestimation of women's socio …-economic contribution to the economy, but also in the under-utilisation of women's tremendous socio-economic potentials in the Nigerian …

Neoliberal structural adjustment policies (SAPS) have been criticized as having negative effects on women's employment … differences in the growth of women's relative employment. Countries with less orthodox adjustment policies appear to have had … greater growth in women's relative employment than countries with more orthodox policies. This pattern is illustrated with …