that commenting on gender-related laws reduces men's bias against women slightly, while writing stories has a strong effect … on reducing existing prejudice against women. Moreover, writing gender-related stories improves men’s knowledge of gender … deep-rooted prejudices against women. In this study, we use a randomized control trial to examine whether facilitating …

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). …

recruitment efforts brought more women on board, but some critics regarded the related fast-track program as misguided or …

Strategic Plan (2021-26) lays out ambitious targets to achieve universal health coverage. Yet, women in Tanzania continue to … challenges disadvantaging women. The aims of this paper are two-fold. First, we examine the evolution of Tanzania's health policy … over the past two decades (2000-21) from the perspective of enhancing financial protection for working-age women. Second …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …

-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where female labour force participation continues to decline over time. We find … for women aged 20-50, with the effect stronger for urban women. The effect is particularly strong if the pension …, leading to reduced labour supply by the elderly, allowing them to provide greater childcare support. The increase in women …

This paper aims to study the impact of migration on labour supply and time-use of women left behind in Kyrgyzstan … the labour supply data, this study uses detailed information on daily time-use, which is analysed within women … that the migration of a household member increases the choice of left-behind women to be unpaid family workers. Most of the …

reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the … following questions: What are the likely causes of rights reversals? How might rights reversals be more consequential for women …

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 …