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Women & Social Security/Transfer Payments Law
Carney AO, Terry - 2010
of Australian social security law and policy to isolate the extent to which discrimination and disadvantage is a product …
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Why Highly Educated Women Face Potential Poverty : A Case Study in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Malik, Syeda - 2012
Although highly educated women in Bangladesh expect to achieve gender equality, compared to highly educated men, they experience poverty in disproportionate scales. Various educational and motivational programs have been successfully working in Bangladesh. Subsequently, women have broken out the...
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A Hidden Cost of Affirmative Action : Muddying Signals about Women’s Ability
Avery, Mallory - 2021
Despite gains in female representation in early career stages, large gender gaps persist atthe higher ends of the income distribution. This paper uses an experiment to study whetheraffirmative action, which has been used mainly in early career stages, could have a hiddencost. Specifically, by...
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Do Marriage and Children Deprive Women’s Hiring Opportunities - A Field Experiment
Kim, Myongjin; Lyu, Jiawei; Nedelescu, Daniel; Shen, Leilei - 2021
effect on married women is driven by the discrimination against married women with no children and married women with one …
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Accommodating the Female Body : A Disability Paradigm of Sex Discrimination
Roberts, Jessica L. - 2010
This Article presents a novel approach for understanding sex discrimination in the workplace by integrating three … studies, I argue that the built environment serves as a situs of sex discrimination. In the first Part, I explain how the … constructed for male workers as instruments of sex discrimination. I then explain how built environments intended for the male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222925
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An Ethnographic Assessment of Female Intra-Household Bargaining Power : A Case Study of Domestic Workers from India during a Pandemic
Mohan, Deepanshu; Sekhani, Richa; Agarwal, Shivani; … - 2020
A greater participation of women in labour-force assists in increasing the overall household income while reducing overall levels of (income) poverty and increasing the household consumption of goods and services. A higher female-male labor participation rate has also shown to allow a greater...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and poor women's agency : a case of domestic workers in Delhi
Chakravarty, Deepita; Nayak, Nandini - 2022
and are less likely to face household-level discrimination. We also try to understand whether the extent, severity, and … nature of discrimination within the household may change if women have better chances, than men, to retain or get back their …
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Women Participation in MSMEs
Raj, Manisha - 2011
With limited data and information, this paper aims to examine the recent developments in women participation/entrepreneurs in India.. This paper focuses on women entrepreneurs in micro, small and medium enterprises. The objective of the paper is: a) to estimate the ratio of women labor force in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117860
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Policies to support women's paid work : policies in developing countries to improve women's access to paid work should also consider child welfare
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2015
Engaging in paid work is generally difficult for women in developing countries. Many women work unpaid in family businesses or on farms, are engaged in low-income self-employment activities, or work in low-paid wage employment. In some countries, vocational training or grants for starting a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431666
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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2019
This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122672