women's representation in the labour market have been overlooked. This study addresses this gap by examining how changes in … the tertiary sector affect women's employment. Decomposition analysis based on 461 Cameroonian firms indicates a 6.2 per …

This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re … women in rural India, and was inexplicably shut down in 2014. We argue that a combination of political philosophy, electoral … programmes such as Mahila Samakhya, which called for a long and messy process of collectivization of the most marginalized women …

This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …

design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …, through their effects on workingage women's employment in the 2000s. We also discuss the extent to which women's employment is … areas of financial services, labour market regulations, and entrepreneurship support, and women's labour market position has …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective of working-age women. Drawing on a scoping review of diverse evidence … arrangements, significant inequalities in access to social protection persist for women across the formal and informal sectors … child grants allocated to the main caregiver has great potential to promote women's empowerment and the achievement of SDGs …

This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents …, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … rebel groups, emphasizing how women operate within the command structure. While there is a growing trend in assessing the …

Studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated that poor women have been the worst sufferers in terms … of pay cuts and job losses. Women are the hardest hit also at the household level. They have to bear the brunt of … explore whether women who have achieved some agency from their work gain a stronger capacity for intra-household bargaining …

to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more … greater equality is rooted in educational opportunities; and argues that both educational provision, and women's entry into … developing economies. -- elites ; higher education ; women ; development ; economic history ; families …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …