endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on …This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … Colombian manufacturing firms, by extending a CDM model to include women’s participation in science, technology and innovation …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their privileged position in a patriarchal world whereas, as fathers, they were hurt by a system that afforded few rights to …

agricultural activities. Access to savings groups also leads to a four-percentage point increase in access to credit among women … microfinance lenders among the unbanked. …

This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …