: 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 …

This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic … participation, female unemployment and female employment rates. The engaged ICT variables are: fixed broadband subscriptions, mobile …

technology affects the formal economic participation of women. The focus is on 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. The … results show that improving communication technology increases female economic participation with the following consistent …

access to education notwithstanding, gender discrimination still persists in India and lot more needs to be done in the field … are empowered it will strengthen the national economy. Education is considered as a milestone for women empowerment … of women's education in India. Women have so much unexplored potential which has never been tapped. As education is both …

. Women face disadvantage in accessing management positions and entrepreneurship. A range of policies can help reduce gender … upskilling on return from parental leave, encouraging gender equality within firms, integration programmes for foreign-born women … dimensions and root causes of gender inequality call for mainstreaming gender across policy domains. …

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a … quality, by gender, geography and parental socio-economic status. Survey and census data measure attainment and access, while … a grade-3 Portuguese test and 2007 SACMEQ tests measure quality. While the gender gap in access has been closed, large …

subject playing an important role, while gender and educational differences seem less important …

-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 …

identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a …