Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge … in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards …, especially for government programs like the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in India. This study aims to provide empirical …

-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends …In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra … significant peer effects on only a few of the examined measures of women's autonomy. In contrast, peer effects exist on all …

and parenthood bring substantial changes in time use among women and men. This paper updates and reinforces the findings … that women specialize in unpaid domestic and care work and men specialize in market work. The paper employs propensity … indicate that women of prime working age are the most penalized on a host of measures, including labor market participation …