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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 …
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What does it mean to say that rural areas of Africa are poor? Many people insist that in rural African populations poverty is prevalent. This is either because the smallholder agricultural practices are unproductive or it is because economic policies have not protected and promoted African...
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did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment … opportunities for women are decreasing, and that social and cultural factors may be interacting with these three factors and …
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and landless and between different regions. Inputs to agriculture are critical to the landowning poor whereas linkages …
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migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …
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The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of countries. In particular, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the OECD over the past ten years reveals that on average female students underperform...
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Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women's re-luctance to choose technical occupations …
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This paper analyses the impact of a set of gender-role attitudes on the labour market situation of women with and …
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