relations propel women's decision to prioritise the use of financial services as a result of ascribed gender and social roles …The paper focuses on women's financial behaviour in their use of higher order financial services in Ghana and South … Africa, inviting a gendered and social analysis of deconstructing financial behaviour. Women in South Africa are more likely …

-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …

on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines …

The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by … contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative … terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by …

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 …

Papal States gender inequality was particularly severe, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany experienced a relatively stronger female … the legal right to divorce, historically advocated by women emancipation movements. …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …