achieved by empowering women and reducing gender disparities, and by changing norms and attitudes which foster violence …"Morrison, Ellsberg, and Bott present an overview of gender-based violence (GBV) in Latin America, with special … serious consequences for women's health and well-being, ranging from fatal outcomes, such as homicide, suicide, and AIDS …

"This paper examines the role of male-dominated international migration in shaping labor market outcomes by gender in …. However, women with past family migration experience are significantly more likely to engage in self-employment and less …-dominated Albanian migration may lead to women's empowerment in access to income-earning opportunities at the origin. "--World Bank web …

"Quisumbing and Yohannes use the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey to examine the gender dimensions of public works … where female participation is low. Gender differences are important in the participation decision, but operate differently … in different types of labor markets. Better-educated women are more likely to participate in the wage labor market, while …

Analysis of time use data for Peru in 1994 and 1997 shows that women work up to a fifth more than men do and that women …