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This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …
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This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046578
We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320345
Women fulfil a wide variety of roles on farms - farm manager, household manager, other family member work-ing on the … farm, partner, mother, cook, carer and many more. The majority of the women interviewed experience this variety of roles as …, long distances in rural areas and little free time are aggravating factors for many women. Despite their high motivation to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000426
Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and infuence gender norms? In collaboration with … Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages … status quo). Women in a random subset of villages were also trained on account use. In the short run, relative to women just …
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Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...
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In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …
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The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …
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We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …
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Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …
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