Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major … contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing …

households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from …

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of … conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues to be considered are the space in which gender inequality in … overall measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is …

, household-based poverty measures ignore the intra-household inequalities and are gender-insensitive. Gender equality, however … poverty and gender inequality by proposing an individual-based multidimensional poverty measure for Nicaragua and estimate the … gender differentials in the incidence, intensity, and inequality of multidimensional poverty. Overall, we find that in …

significant gender differences in multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua; but, they are estimated to be small and lower than 5 …Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis …, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all …