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 …

, 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 …

grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social … 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 …

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 …

Although Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial … inclusion persists. This paper examines gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania using descriptive and regression … analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money services has led to increased access to formal financial services, women still …

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 …

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest … that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon … cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon …

We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through … variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities. Disagreement is common independently of …, women tend to demand less than men in the same situation. The influence of beliefs on demands is stronger for men than for …

This paper discusses whether the Asian financial crisis affected men and women differently in Indonesia by estimating … the effect of district consumption shock during the crisis on changes in men's and women's working status and assets. I … consumption increases women's employment and decreases men’s non-business assets. The effect is both cases is large. I also found …

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 …