Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double … difference analysis using data surrounding the period.We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …

representative sample of women in the United States. Religious affiliation is found to have a significant impact on years of …

rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with … to relax human capital constraints for women by offering vocational, business and life skills training in 30 villages in …

Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration … provides a leeway for women to enter the labor market and/or to increase their labor supply. In line with previous studies, we … find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration …

namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …

The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk … share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …

How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women's labour market participation? This issue is … light of trends in women's participation in the labour market and two key changes in the structure of taxation: a shift from …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and … those managers are women. These findings suggest a stronger presence of women in managerial positions can help tackle the …