markets. Matching over two decades of panel data on industrial mines to survey data for half a million women and exploiting … industrial mine induces a structural shift whereby women switch from working in agriculture to services. We also find that the … probability to earn cash income increases and women become less likely to work seasonally once a mine opens nearby. The results …

. Challenges to smallholder women farmers are particularly high, because they potentially face higher entry barriers than men in … modern market chains. This study aims to examine bottlenecks to and opportunities for different categories of women to … that can promote women’s participation in markets for high value agricultural commodities. The study focuses on two …

used meta-ethnographic methods to understand their origins, their meanings for the women who use them, and how they have … women to negotiate challenges that they face. Recent evidence suggests that some practices may increase a woman … as microbicides, might be determined by whether they can and will be used by women in the course of their daily life. …

geographical regions, with women having four visits being 7.3 times more likely than those with no prenatal care to deliver at a …, maternal age and education, parity level, and economic status of the birthing women on the place of delivery is found to vary … accessible to urban and rural women from the non-poor households than those from the poor households. The strong influence of …

corroborated in Lomé, where women are likely to consider work as a legitimate alternative to their role as a mother or spouse … Dakar working does not seem to hinder family formation. Greater involvement of women in the labour force is not the main …

activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …

Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …