: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

A kind of gender revolution is passing through various countries in various continents. By being offered free access to … assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a … set of variables, treated as proxies of gender equality and women entrepreneurship, we estimate their coherence with socio …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …

In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic … development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over …

investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …

agricultural investment, gender gaps in agricultural productivity, and the emergence of hierarchical societies, are at the root of … existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender and politeness …

Based on data out of the 1970s, the "Heyneman-Loxley Effect" proposed that in developing countries, school … characteristics were more important than family socioeconomic status in determining school achievement. In this paper, I reassess … model analysis reveal that school characteristics in the African context become even more important when national economic …

positive and statistically significant impacts on education outcomes for both boys and girls. For boys, the presence of typhoon …-resistant schools equipped with instructional resources led to an average increase of 0.26–0.31 years of education, while the presence … of instructional resources alone led to an average increase of 0.23–0.26 years of education. For girls, the availability …