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What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
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We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
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progress and social norms have freed women from the home, increasing their participation in both the labor market and the crime … whether the policy prescriptions to reduce crime should differ for women. … be occurring in the criminal world, though many more men than women still engage in criminal activity. Technological …
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Sexual harassment is a global issue. In a recent case in Mumbai, two young men, Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) were stabbed on 20 Oct 2011 while confronting some unknown men eve-teasing their female friends. Santos and Fernandez had to lose their lives in refusing to accept this...
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Das Thema einer gesetzlichen Mindestquote für Frauen in Führungspositionen der Privatwirtschaft ist in Deutschland politisch und gesellschaftlich umstritten. Der Beitrag beleuchtet die Thematik näher und gibt eine Einschätzung der Frauenquote und weiterer Maßnahmen, die die Ungleichstellung...
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Über die Entlohnungsunterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männern, den sogenannten Gender Pay Gap (GPG), wird derzeit viel diskutiert. Häufig steht dabei die Entgeltlücke von zuletzt 22 Prozent für das Jahr 2014 im Vordergrund, die das Statistische Bundesamt regelmäßig berichtet (Statistisches...
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activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …
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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 …
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activities, to stimulate and advance current debate on women and gender issues in the wake of conflict. …
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One of a series of reports examining issues related to equality for women in employment. Provides an overview of the … treatment of women in social security programmes in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub- Saharan Africa. Calls attention to …
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