migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

/methodology/approach The research adopts a mixed approach to address the prospects and challenges of establishing an Islamic Retail bank in … Mauritius. Findings The research finds that there are various prospects for an Islamic retail bank in Mauritius for Muslims and … Islamic retail bank in Mauritius face various challenges. Some of these challenges are lack of Sharīʿah-compliant liquidity …

Women's rising labor force participation since the 1960's was long seen as heralding decreasing gender inequalities …. According to influential social science writings this view has now to be revised; 'women friendly' policies bringing women into … the workforce are held to create major inequality tradeoffs between quantity and quality in women's jobs. Unintendedly …

-life balance, decreasing job stress among working women. The novel finding suggests the absence of conflict in the family …

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It … among women by nativity, urbanization, and region of the country. While foreign-born and illiterate women were more likely … greater the slave-intensity of the county, the less likely were free women to report having an occupation, particularly as …

terms of improving its population's access to social protection. A focus on women's access is crucial in the light of their … significantly lower labor force participation rate (LFPR) compared to men's and because many women are in the informal sector. A … study by the Asian Development Bank noted that the disparities in the access to social protection between men and women are …

Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were … exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and … an augmented free female labor force participation rate for 1860. It is calculated by identifying free women (age 16 and …

Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were … exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and … an augmented free female labor force participation rate for 1860. It is calculated by identifying free women (age 16 and …

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It … among women by nativity, urbanization, and region of the country. While foreign-born and illiterate women were more likely … greater the slave-intensity of the county, the less likely were free women to report having an occupation, particularly as …