'hard' COVID-19 lockdown between 2020 quarter 1 and 2 in South Africa, both men and women lost about a million jobs. We show … African women's clustering in occupations high in physical proximity (e.g., services). South African labour market data are …

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest … that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon … cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon …

In developing countries, women’s decisions concerning their children’s health depend on ‘empowerment’ concerning … poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We … apply the ‘MIMIC’ approach to the 2009 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey. Children’s health is better when the woman …

spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple …This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …

recruitment efforts brought more women on board, but some critics regarded the related fast-track program as misguided or …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

Strategic Plan (2021-26) lays out ambitious targets to achieve universal health coverage. Yet, women in Tanzania continue to … challenges disadvantaging women. The aims of this paper are two-fold. First, we examine the evolution of Tanzania's health policy …. Although expanding health insurance coverage represents a viable corrective measure, future reforms must account for women …

Based on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women's low labour force participation. In … developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers. Women are … leads to mismeasurement of women's work. Religion and visible markers such as veiling are not significant determinants of …

design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …, through their effects on workingage women's employment in the 2000s. We also discuss the extent to which women's employment is … areas of financial services, labour market regulations, and entrepreneurship support, and women's labour market position has …

protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective of working-age women. Drawing on a scoping review of diverse evidence … arrangements, significant inequalities in access to social protection persist for women across the formal and informal sectors … child grants allocated to the main caregiver has great potential to promote women's empowerment and the achievement of SDGs …