This paper analyzes the impact of the Strengthening Women Entrepreneurship in Peru (SWEP) program. SWEP trained female … expenditures, or women's empowerment in the household. Qualitative information suggests that micro entrepreneurs were satisfied …

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 …

. As with many other sectors, however, the size and nature of the contribution of women in particular, is inadequately … problems are especially stark for the small-scale fisheries of developing countries where women often bear brunt of poverty …

The participation rate of women aged 25-64 rose greatly in the 1970s and 1980s, but has stagnated in the 1990s. In … integration of women into the labour force. In the fourth article of this symposium, Paul Beaudry and Thomas Lemieux use a cohort … of women who entered the labour force at different points in time. They decompose a cohort’s participation rate into …

This study explored low-income and transitional housing environments of women sex workers and their role in shaping … agency and power in negotiating safety and sexual risk reduction in Vancouver, Canada. A series of 12 focus group discussions … were conducted with 73 women currently involved in street-based sex work. These women were purposively sampled for a range …

. The research identified six profiles according to the different routes by which women choose entrepreneurship: Young Women …The study identifies the various reasons why women become entrepreneurs, considering their life cycle and the factors … that have encouraged them, using the qualitative paradigm based on case studies of twenty-four women entrepreneurs in Peru …

disadvantages of e-learning with a stress of special benefits for women. Additionally, presented are results of several researches …