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 impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan … leads to more progressive gender norms. Furthermore, these effects in gender perceptions are driven mostly by male students … to female peers operates not only by reducing traditional gender perceptions but also by changing actual behaviour …

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