paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … address unpaid care work. Doing so would improve economic and human development and reduce gender inequality. …

through the lens of (positive) income effect versus (negative) childcare effect, which is consistent with two sets of further …

gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian … gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation …

probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are … for an understanding of the relationship between caste and gender, and for the targeting of anti-poverty programmes. …

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of …

, leading to reduced labour supply by the elderly, allowing them to provide greater childcare support. The increase in women …

expansion of childcare services and home-based care for dependent elderly, both financed through a progressive direct tax on …