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to work in rural areas, and there were no education facilities and too few female school graduates who could be trained … provide reproductive health services had to be tackled urgently. Hence the Community Midwifery Education (CME) Program was …
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This article considers, on the one hand, how public policy shapes gender relations and, on the other, the extent to which gender is a basis for public policy. Based on a literature survey, we distinguished four issues: 1) the Welfare State is moving towards a new form of maternalism in public...
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The integration of women into the labour market has gone through both upswings and downturns. In view of this ambivalent result, we can question the efficiency of public policies set up to overcome gender inequality and fight gender discrimination. Does a real will exist, and if so why is it so...
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The aim of this contribution is to analyze the dynamic of social innovation of home-care services. Based on the works of Polanyi which analyse socio-economic dynamics and on feminist theories in the field of care, we develop an original grid of analysis developing criteria to grasp the processes...
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A key obstacle to workplace gender equality are the processes that occur in the family, and thus a target of family policies. We examine how family status affects the gender wage gap using longitudinal matched employer-employee data from Norway, 1979-1996, a period with extensive expansion of...
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the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in their selection …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries …
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This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in … this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan …: first, positive but low rate of return to education and correlations between education, experience, its square and wages for …
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This paper examines the impact of property inheritance rights on education of women. Using plausibly exogenous … education in the context of household property management rather than by a relaxation of the household budget constraint owing …
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