impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and destruction alter the structure and dynamics of households, including their … demographic profiles and traditional gender roles. To date, attention to the gender impacts of conflict has focused almost … exclusively on sexual and gender-based violence. The authors show that a far wider set of gender issues must be considered to …

Empowering women to engage in productive employment is not only critical to achieving gender equality but also critical … for economic growth and poverty reduction. This paper studies the pattern of female activity and gender segmentation in … manufacturing than in services, segmentation based on gender is pervasive in both sectors. Theory, dating back to Gary Becker …

. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …

Gender disparities in small and medium-size enterprise lending exist around the world and impede the growth of millions … of women-led firms. This paper examines a potential driver of these disparities: gender-biased loan officers. Officer … reducing gender biased loan allocations by 6 percent. The results suggest that loan officers may use gender bias as a heuristic …

reform to promote gender equity and advocacy efforts, offer more promise by bringing about permanent shifts in the relative …

This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its … evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed in the gender wage gap in Georgia … gender wage gap and its decline by decomposing the gender wage gap into the within-category and between-category components …

the second generation -- women's daughters and sons. Additionally, gender gaps in property ownership induce allocative … over property. Gender gaps are smaller if joint ownership is taken into consideration, but still materially disadvantage … paper is an important step toward a better understanding of gender gaps in property ownership in Africa and outlines an …

This paper decomposes the gender gap in pay in the Russian Federation along the earnings distribution for the period … the gender pay gap decrease along the earnings distribution; and if women?s pay took into account their educational … degrees as much as men?s, the gender pay gap would disappear or even reverse at the top of the earnings distribution. The …

This paper studies gender education gaps among indigenous and nonindigenous groups in Bolivia. Using the National … the intersection of gender and indigenous identity confers cumulative disadvantage for indigenous women in literacy, years … of schooling, and primary and secondary school completion. Although gender education gaps have become narrower across …