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 …

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. …

This paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique. Contract farming is … contracts' implications for gender equality, both across and within households. We look both at the participation of female …

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. …

Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender …-disaggregated data and patchy gender-integration in policies and operational responses. To remedy this, the World Bank (WB) and the …