impact of the Covid-19 crisis has been more than proportional for women, especially for low educated female workers and …

lesbian women have been found to receive lower wages in comparison to heterosexual women. We reveal the new evidence on this …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …

findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …

, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on … the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We …

ways men and women value the pre-mentioned. This is important, as global goals and national policy focus on the improvement … women's "optimism", notwithstanding their lower levels of endowments, the swb between genders was equalised. These results …