also has a persistent effect on gender equality by empowering women’s careers …

techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences …

Previous studies found mixed answers whether women-owned firms are less successful than men-owned firms. Women … same survival rate as a man-owned firms. Women start their firms with smaller assets and fewer employees and generate lower … same as their male-owned counterparts. We found no gender gaps in debt capital injection ratios. However, we found women …

Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses … housework, with women, even if working, holding the main responsibility for housekeeping activities, is perceived as "fair …-1998, the results show that women's relative unhappiness is likely to be causes by their increasing earning powers with relative …