protect women from domestic violence. Through qualitative research, this paper explores the experience of women survivors of … violence against women (VAW) in seeking help to exit abusive relationships, with the aim of identifying avenues to strengthen …This paper seeks to fill a knowledge gap relative to the low uptake of services for women living in situations of …

Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict … intimate partner violence. It also examines the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of controlling …

the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have … saved about 33 million women between 1990 and 2012. The negative relationship between domestic violence legislation and …

Although women?s police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no … quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have … most severe form of domestic violence. Given that a high fraction of female deaths among women ages 15 to 49 years can be …

models and empirical evidence suggest that working can increase a woman's risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a … dataset collected in peri-urban Dhaka, this analysis documents a positive correlation between work and domestic violence. This … correlation is only present among women with less education or who were younger at first marriage. These results are consistent …

rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence …This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data …

female entrepreneurship and various institutional factors, including women's financial inclusion, the gender gap in education … 2016. The paper finds that the gender gap in business ownership remains high in many economies around the world. In the … majority of the analyzed economies, less than one-third of new limited liability company owners are women. Although sole …

Despite their increasing prominence in policy debates, little is known about gender inequities in non …, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper documents and analyzes gender differences in the individual portfolio choice and … productivity of non-farm entrepreneurship. Except for Ethiopia, women are less likely than men to become nonfarm entrepreneurs …

respond to declining income with coping strategies that can vary significantly by gender. In the past, women from low …Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? The evidence shows this to be the case, especially in low …-income countries. The first-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment should be particularly salient in the current …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the … promoting the role of women in growth strategies …