Several studies explore the differences in men?s and women?s labor market participation rates and wages. Some of these … among women relative to men in the country. The paper combines the literature on women?s careers in management, which has … proportion of female top managers also have higher enrollment rates for women relative to men in primary, secondary, and tertiary …

Many key development outcomes depend on women's ability to negotiate favorable intrahousehold allocations of resources …. Yet it has been difficult to clearly identify which policies can increase women's bargaining power and result in better … outcomes. This paper reviews both the analytical frameworks and the empirical evidence on the importance of women's bargaining …

-income countries. The first-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment should be particularly salient in the current …Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? The evidence shows this to be the case, especially in low … downturn, since women have increased their participation in the globalized workforce and therefore are more directly affected …

women. Significant declines in HIV prevalence, teen pregnancy, and early marriage among recipients of unconditional cash … women …

adult height. Each additional month of exposure decreases a women's adult height by 1.36 millimeters. The impacts are not …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … promoting the role of women in growth strategies …

since 2001, women's employment participation across South Asian countries has been low and broadly unchanged; (ii) the … some countries, and; (v) women with mid-level education tend to have lower employment rates than those with both lower and …This paper studies employment patterns and trends in South Asia to shed light on determinants of extremely low female …

This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on the rural labor market outcomes for women. The existing … women's labor force participation, but a negative effect on female wages. The empirical results thus contradict a collateral …

In Turkey, female employment and education are still relatively low, while fertility levels are high compared with … education and employment come along with important decreases in fertility. By mobilizing census and survey data, this paper … finds that fertility decreases are mainly caused by fewer transitions to a third birth. Graduate women participating in the …

explanation behind these findings may be economic and cultural. Jobless growth and the lack of growth in employment sectors such … as manufacturing and services, which proved critical for female employment in other countries, weaken labor demand and …