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needs to be done to enhance women's access to assets, skills training, and better-quality employment. Further gender … design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …'s employment policies from a gender perspective by adopting a functional approach. We examine policies with (1) a labour market …
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, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … argue that women's engagement in Liberian civil wars as combatants and peace activists reconstitute gender norms and gender …This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents …
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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 …
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We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …
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intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … brief case study of women's labour force participation in India, where the direct link between gender attitudes and women …Women have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility. In contrast, new research focuses on the …
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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 …
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techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences …
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cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …
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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 …
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-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a …Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors … identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …
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