have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India …’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in this part of the country, are going to get more and more employments both in … bring in miseries to the women folks. However, in the long run, women in this region are going to gain the lion’s share of …

‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …

ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … 7.4 per cent more likely to perceive financial barriers to business start-up than men. As perceptions of financial …

promoting women’s equal representation with men in local politics and the efforts to improve the political landscape for women …Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the … right to vote and the right to stand for election (Ballington & Karam, 2005), gender equality in terms of representation in …

the same quantity of farm products. Historically, women have been the managers of natural resources as they are dependent … rendered them scarce. The rural women collect over 28% of all energy consumed in India in the form of firewood. Most of the 140 …-scale migration to urban areas. Women are being forced to take up more drudgerous jobs as a source of livelihood as most of the …

to underline the positive corollary existing between the targeting of women by microfinance programs, on the one hand …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double negative disadvantage … with gender and migrant status slightly rise across the distribution of wages, suggesting the existence of a sort of glass …

home as well as at work. For example, 45 per cent of the measurable Gross Domestic Income comes from the work of women in … the world’s richest countries. However, the women are discriminated both at work and at home. Further, they are vulnerable … to conflicts, wars and terrorism. The women in Eritrea are fighting for their rights and freedom. This paper explores the …

Abstract: The paper analyzed the contribution of informally employed women (for the age group of 16-60 years) in their … household budget. The urban informal sector absorbs the women workers largely. What are the determinants of their contribution … observations it is found that women as head of household, women’s education, and ownership of assets by woman have positive effect …