This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women … Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard …

, and the concepts of housework and employment are taken as mutually exclusive. Second, given this duality between housework … and employment, women define "employment" based on a set of necessary characteristics that exclude many of their own …

change was to narrow the definition of employment to work for pay or profit. By the revised standards, farming that is only … or mainly intended for own use is no longer considered employment, and such a farmer is no longer considered to be … employed or in the labor force. This paper analyzes the implications of the revised standards on measures of employment in Sub …

-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …-farm employment and continued employment are country- and gender-specific, with demographic factors, occurrence of shocks, and job …, the determinants and dynamics of individuals' participation in off-farm employment activities have not received adequate …

This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … drivers of gender differences, as well as issues of social inclusion, and to explore policy approaches to improve learning … progress on gender parity in education; however, the national averages mask important variations at the subnational level …

integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …

' employment, accounting for the complexity of measuring rural women's labor force participation, as well as data on social … issues to consider when examining rural women's employment in socioeconomic surveys, as well as a survey research agenda to …

This paper contributes to better understanding firms' discriminatory behavior in the presence of gender-based legal … restrictions from discriminatory behaviors and female employment is particularly strong in the manufacturing sector …