. As a result, development and urbanization led to very uneven results for different categories of women in India. While … the poor women in rural India were left behind, the middle class educated women were able to improve their economic and … attitudes are conditioned by economic pressures, which would ultimately lead to improvement in the status of women. In the …

Punjab region of India. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on the preliminary results of a survey conducted … with 48 marginal farmers and 15 bank managers in Punjab, India. Findings – Emergent results show that the relationship of … India. Loan rejection rates for female owner/managers were significantly greater than those of their male counterparts. The …

understand how gender discrimination can have far reaching consequences on the careers of working women. It looks at five aspects … of this issue, namely workplace harassment, hiring, maternity leave, women in leadership roles, and the experience of … marginalised women. Although a global issue, this article looks at gender discrimination from Indian Context. Design …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is both to argue that CSR has a role to play in the empowerment of women in India …

and unpaid work. The study at hand identifies women’s and men’s volume of paid and unpaid work in time units and money … contributions to traditional GDP, time use data determine the gender-specific paid and unpaid workload. Thus, women’s and men …

Switzerland) on women’s and men’s employment behaviour. Special consideration is given to the transition to parenthood. Design … cantonal effects on the probability of employment and on working hours. To analyse the effect of parenthood, models for women … and men with children under three are contrasted with models for women and men without children or with older children …