force participation over the period, led by increases in women's education and shifts in the occupational structure of the …

This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries … more detail specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women’s employment. I present examples of policies …

This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … groups of women and men are compared. We use the national representative Viet Nam Household Living Standards Survey for 2008 … sector for women of childbearing age without infant children; however, this narrowing is very small. Industry …

Over the last half-century, the role of women in society has changed substantially. However, the gender income gap and …

child penalty and the prevailing gender norms and family policies in the region. We find that motherhood reduces 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 …

This paper aims to study the impact of migration on labour supply and time-use of women left behind in Kyrgyzstan … the labour supply data, this study uses detailed information on daily time-use, which is analysed within women … that the migration of a household member increases the choice of left-behind women to be unpaid family workers. Most of the …