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Concerns about gender equality have jumped to the forefront of public debate in recent years, and Gender Economics is slowly affirming its place as a major field of study. This assessment examines where we are in terms of gender equality. It reviews the theoretical foundations that can explain...
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women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …
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the legal right to divorce, historically advocated by women emancipation movements. …
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The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. Some scholars have explained this paradox by the existence of deeply rooted or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that...
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women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …
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and women, from Google's German language book corpus. These additional series are broadly consistent with the evolution of …
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a result of growing political commitments, as well as the work of women’s movements and feminist economic studies. These … on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, have adopted the Regional Gender Agenda, which aims to guarantee women …-responsibility between men and women, and among the State, the market, communities, and families, as well as the importance of promoting the …
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reflects the circumstances of women and men in all their diversity, and thus to shed light on inequalities in different aspects … Strategy, with a focus on pillar 9, and is the outcome of the coordinated work of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin …
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We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …
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