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Collective action by women's networks has been a strong driver of legislative change in many countries across the world …. Women's groups in Botswana have used advocacy tools such as testing the implementation of gender equality principles in the … national court system. In 1992, women's legal networks in the Unity Dow case successfully challenged discriminatory statutory …
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monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash …
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This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may … not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic … percentage points. Two main explanations are found. First, women identify themselves (and are identified) primarily as housewives …
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This paper seeks to fill a knowledge gap relative to the low uptake of services for women living in situations of … 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 …
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Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but …-based difference-in-difference model to examine the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of physical and sexual … intimate partner violence. It also examines the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of controlling …
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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 …
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This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … model finds that the removal of school fees led to an increase in schooling for Ethiopian women and that each additional … women's ideal number of children …
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Improving women's agency, namely their ability to define goals and act on them, is crucial for advancing gender … equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial … -- provide a fragmented understanding of the constraints women face in exercising their agency, restricting the design of quality …
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of occupational segregation, the program had a surprising effect. For women who at baseline were implicitly biased … against associating women with professional attributes, the likelihood that the program induced switching into the information … and communications technology sector was more than three times as large than that of unbiased women. These results suggest …
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This paper studies the gender-based differences in access to and return from economic activities in the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) using panel datasets from Uganda and Ethiopia. The results show that female-headed households have limited access to paid employment and self-employment in the...
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