It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from … reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy-along with the …

address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it … negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal …

specifications. The findings of this paper support the long-standing view that women empowerment contributes to the reduction of …

economic growth, can potentially influence women's welfare. Using a panel dataset of 94 developing countries from 1990 to 2015 …, we find that FDI inflows improve women's welfare and decrease gender inequality. However, the impact is lower in … countries where women have low access to resources and face a heavier burden to open a business. This suggests that for …

In sub-Saharan Africa women work relatively more in the informal sector than men. Many factors could explain this … difference, including women's lower education levels, legal barriers, social norms and demographic characteristics. Cross … increases this probability by 8.5 percent; (ii) education is usually more relevant for women; (iii) having kids reduces men …

activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder the burden of unpaid work: on average, women do …

particularly high among women. Nevertheless, widespread income reduction was observed both in rural and urban households. This … could worsen the opportunities for women as husbands' control over the household resource is the norm. The paper also finds …

Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on …-country heterogeneity. The probability of automation is lower for younger cohorts of women, and for those in managerial positions …

Statistics indicate that the economic and social development of women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA … policies on the economic and social welfare of women in the region. On the expenditure side, we test the explanatory power of … for MENA women are not explained by the amount of government social spending, suggesting the answer lies in the efficiency …