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The study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in … Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary …% of men face time constraints. Women's time poverty worsens when the burden of simultaneous care work is taken into …
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, and unpaid work, on the other, well-designed employment guarantee policies can promote job creation, gender equality, and …
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Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and …"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty reduction and women's equality will be reversed. Indeed, for many … exacerbated effects from other crises manifest in food insecurity, poverty, and increasing inequality. This paper explores both …
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gender differences? In other words, should the state be gender-blind or gender-sensitive? Gender, ethnic, religious, sexual … understanding of gender-based asymmetries. …
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revealed the presence of gender asymmetries stemming from men having experienced disproportionately high job losses. In this … paper, we further examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women given … that the role of household production as a coping mechanism may vary by poverty status. We use the 2003-12 American Time …
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By providing 100 days of guaranteed employment to every rural household, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) can challenge the hegemony of the landed elite as major employers in the Indian countryside and raise market wages which have long been depressed. This paper shows that...
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Rural non-agricultural employment (RNAE) is being increasingly emphasized as a potential pathway out of rural poverty …
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an important path out of poverty. To take advantage of these more attractive livelihood strategies, households need to …
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Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of financial services. We investigate this further to determine whether it is the economic or the non-economic factors that have a greater impact on empowering women. Using household...
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attitudes, by gender, age and level of education. The analysis is based on a unique nationally representative panel Household …
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