governorates of Jordan. The social norms measures are disaggregated into thematic clusters, empirical and normative expectations …

This paper studies employment patterns and trends in South Asia to shed light on determinants of extremely low female … employment rates in the region. After a comprehensive literature review, the authors use employment data from about one hundred … censuses and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to compare employment trends …

should center on promoting the acceptability of female employment and investing in growing economic sectors that are more … attractive for female employment …

estimate the elasticity of maternal employment to preschool access. The analysis finds that an additional public preschool per …

period is the collapse in the number of farming jobs without a parallel emergence of other employment opportunities … considered suitable for women. The paper develops a novel approach to capture the structure of employment at the village or town …

that draw in female workers have expanded least, so that changes in the sectoral structure of employment alone would have …