-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help … for the use of capability measures over agency measures focused solely on household decision-making to assess women …This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of …

women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …

share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are ….We interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … factors in explaining the declining workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and household … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied …

of women who are subjected to domestic abuse, have low influence in decision making, and limited freedom of mobility are …This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may … have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i …

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … multinomial logistic regression to assess what determines households' decision-making and attitudes towards physical abuse of …

women. These findings can be explained by pro-social behavior of workers in socially connected teams …

microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and … indeed were not different from zero for women. In this paper, we explore different explanations for the lower returns among … local areas are important. We do find evidence that women invested the grants differently from men. A smaller share of the …