(english) Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in … increased women’s role in household survival strategies, but their participation does not have the same sociological meaning in … Dakar as it does in Lomé. When women in Dakar take part in an economic activity outside the domestic sphere this clashes …

tending to be observed more and more frequently outside the formal framework of marriage. In both cases, the fact that women …Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an … economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women …

find that poor women and men with low levels of education are the most negatively affected by the tradition of bride price … women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …

status of Ghanaian women. Based on 60 interviews, covers women workers, rural women, marriage, maternity and fertility trends …Working paper reporting on the impact of the education of women, migration and employment on social roles and social …

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a literature survey of the social role of women in Jordan - discusses islamic … influences on marriage, responsibilitys and decision making, woman worker employment, clan family structure and religious … practice, presents folklore interpretations of female social roles, and comments on women's legal status and legislation as …

time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data … associated with fewer non-marital sexual relationships for women. The data show a robust association between bride price payment … and lower rates of non-marital sexual relationships for women but not for men. …

survival chance before two years old of siblings of same gender in Senegal. The analysis is based on nationally representative … exist in Senegal that helps mothers, with an out-of-wedlock birth, to compensate and sometime over-compensate for lack of … cours des deux premières années de vie d'enfants de même sexe et issus d'une même fratrie au Sénégal. L'analyse est réalisée …

By reducing the risk of unwanted parenthood, more effective contraception reduces the cost of sex outside of marriage …, increasing the value of single life. Could this explain why marriage and birth rates declined in the U.S. after 1970?. We …, modeling the shotgun-marriage, contraception- method and abortion margins. We use US survey data on contraception, sexual …

Low sex ratios are often equated with unfavorable marriage prospects for women, but in France after World War 1, the … marriage probability of single females rose 50%, despite a massive drop in the male/female ratio. We conjecture that the war …-time birth-rate bust induced an abnormal postwar abundance of singles with relatively high marriage propensities. We compute the …