transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge, never crossing the 25 percent mark. This paper fills a critical gap in … policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and … to examine the effects of having a young child on mothers' employment in urban India over 1983-2011. The analysis also …

Accra in October 2016, mainly focused on generating a balanced and objective analysis of the issues surrounding women in the … boardroom to ascertain the business case for having females on boards in Ghana. The objectives of the study were to examine the … nature of gender diversity in public and private sector boards in Ghana, examine the determinants of board diversity in …

geographic variations in the operationalization of this policy,4 the essence is that user fees paid OOP by pregnant women or for …

development. Too many women and children are still dying because they lack access to quality health care, especially in the least … extremely effective in getting high quality, essential health services to women and children. He remarks that empowering … transformational changes in access and quality. As countries move toward universal coverage, fewer mothers die in childbirth, and more …

Labor market engagement of women is very low in Kosovo - only 12.5 percent of women of working age are employed … compared to 41.3 percent of men - suggesting that women face obstacles to work and or being hired. These barriers can be … towards women. This note focuses specifically on regulations related to maternity and family leave, and their potential impact …

.1 percent for women in 2013, almost 15 percentage points below employment rates for men (at 54.9 percent). International … evidence shows that support for childcare and eldercare affects women's labor market participation. This note examines the care …