Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favourable supply-side conditions …, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change … the achievement of greater gender equality can be offset by appropriately targeted government policies. …

In this paper, we address the question of whether official development assistance promotes gender equality in the …

In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are … confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles … education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …

's employment policies from a gender perspective by adopting a functional approach. We examine policies with (1) a labour market … needs to be done to enhance women's access to assets, skills training, and better-quality employment. Further gender …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has …

intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … countries. This paper discusses the measurement of gender attitudes and reviews research findings. Studies reveal that gender …. Mothers' egalitarian views and less-restrictive gender norms promote greater labour force participation for daughters and …

, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … weaken Liberia's patriarchal norms and the extent to which gender relations have been reconstructed after the conflict. We … argue that women's engagement in Liberian civil wars as combatants and peace activists reconstitute gender norms and gender …

Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data … from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises … innovation when compared to male-owned enterprises. The endowments effect had a positive association with the gender innovation …