analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money services has led to increased access to formal financial services, women still … empirical results show that women-especially married women-are less likely to access mobile money services and banking financial … services compared with men. Similarly, women are less likely to save and borrow compared with men, with a higher percentage …

Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female … entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women's attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully understood … access to credit on women's work; attitudes towards gender, social and employment norms; and psychosocial well-being. Access …

This paper discusses whether the Asian financial crisis affected men and women differently in Indonesia by estimating … the effect of district consumption shock during the crisis on changes in men's and women's working status and assets. I … consumption increases women's employment and decreases men’s non-business assets. The effect is both cases is large. I also found …

This study examines how, why, and under what conditions marginalized women of customary communities can contribute and … resources creates a structure that divides labour and situates women within a particular set of socio-economic roles in the … identity, territory, and preservation of customary forests. On the downside, marginalized indigenous women who are involved in …

This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … 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 …

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 … over the past two decades (2000-21) from the perspective of enhancing financial protection for working-age women. Second …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …

-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where female labour force participation continues to decline over time. We find … for women aged 20-50, with the effect stronger for urban women. The effect is particularly strong if the pension …, leading to reduced labour supply by the elderly, allowing them to provide greater childcare support. The increase in women …