academics with interest in economics, gender studies, the Middle East, and Islam. …This book explores how a growing religious discourse is advocating for change in women’s employment participation in … Arab societies. It provides a historical and cultural overview of women in Arab societies as well as issues of homogeneity …

Do religiously conservative governments enact policies that limit opportunities for women? This study addresses this … general question in a specific context: whether pro-Islamist politicians’ preferences for traditional gender roles translate … evidence of gender bias with mayors from the pro-Islamist party. Conditioning on the type of incumbent, I find that the share …

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the … was partly explained by the drastic increases in the school attainment of women, the reduction in fertility and the … show that social norms, attitudes towards women in the society and public policies are important determinants of these …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …