in India. What explains these huge gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited education, and gender …Despite rapid economic growth, gender disparities in women's economic participation have remained deep and persistent … female entrepreneurs? This paper analyzes the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing …

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … access, on female owned enterprise creation in the informal sector; and (iv) gender specific market access to inputs matters …

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 …

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 …

in India. What explains these huge gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited education, and gender …Despite rapid economic growth, gender disparities in women's economic participation have remained deep and persistent … female entrepreneurs?This paper analyzes the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing …

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … access, on female owned enterprise creation in the informal sector ; and (iv) gender specific market access to inputs matters …

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …