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Micro credit or extending small loans for income generating activities to the poor, particularly women in predominantly … credit has liberated the women from poverty and enhanced their empowerment to some extent, it has been seen that, many women … other purposes. It is also seen that women loss direct control of the loan taken in their name. But very little has been …
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. The gender wage gap is closing steadily in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Brazil and Uruguay, while Colombian women now enjoy …We examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990’s using household survey data for 18 Latin … distribution of employment of women across sectors of the economy (formal versus informal) and across industries (agriculture …
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Sexual violence and exploitation (SVE) in conflict settings is anunder reported phenomenon that has challenged service deliveryand humanitarian intervention. A proposed solution to thisproblem is to create a global SVE surveillance system to monitorand assess SVE in conflict settings. This...
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"Few women, even today, remain in the labor market full time all their adult lives, and few give as high a priority to … wage rate of female clerical workers, the single largest occupational category for women. It was found that while the …
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The problem analyzed in this paper is low level of women career and their professional activity in organizations. Equal … the competitiveness of companies in the market and joint work of men and women become a success factor of business. The … objective of this paper is women career in Lithuanian companies. The statistic data prove that women are much behind the …
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on a systemic level. Congress recognized that paying lower wages to women constituted “an unfair method of competition … acceptable business defense for paying women less. At the same time, pay discrimination is conceptualized today in the rhetoric …
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. In an attempt to assist m bridging the gap of gender inequality in corporate S.A., professional women may be branded as a …Although South African companies seem to make an attempt to employ more women to meet the required employment quotas …, not enough is being done to allow women to grow beyond certain levels in their jobs, and it appears that women are still …
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Against the declining trend of Australian employees to join unions, unionisation of part-time female employees in the banking industry is relatively strong. For the finance and insurance industry in 2001, 30.3% of total part-time female employees were unionised compared to 25% of full-time...
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This paper presents recent Australian evidence on the extent to which women are entering “hybrid” computing jobs … organisational level. We draw on a survey of detailed occupational roles in large IT firms to examine the representation of women in … representation of women in high status jobs, and their relatively greater prevalence in more routine areas of the industry. While our …
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Bayesian approach to estimate the GLMM, with specific application to analysing employment transitions of women over four waves …
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