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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 … gender issues, was that girls were more likely to be neglected than boys. The analysis confirmed this hypothesis. In respect … on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers …
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Is gender disparity greater in North India? This paper seeks to answer this question by examining gender differences in … probability of completing school education across regions in India. A Gender Disparity Index is calculated using National Sample … hypothesis that gender disparity is greater in the North, comparative to the rest of India. This is followed by an econometric …
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whether such attitudes also lead to gender discrimination in primary education. While there is a vast literature on inter …-household gender discrimination in education, studies of discrimination between siblings is comparatively rare. This paper asks the …
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This paper reports the results of a statistical investigation of the relationship between labor time expended in rural livelihoods, social structure, and community forest management. The object is to understand the impact of labor constraints to collective action. There are three main results....
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this paper, we study the relationship between women employment and domestic violence in India. We used a nationally … gender norm leads to increased domestic violence. …
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aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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In May 1985, the Japanese government passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (hereafter refer to as EEO Law) which took effect from April 1986. The enactment of the EEO Law has aroused much controversy and debate unprecedented in the history of labour legislation in Japan. It prohibits...
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