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relative productivity. Fertility increased. This caused lower female participation in agriculture and subsistence activities …, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …
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1. Introduction -- Part I. Women and Gender Inequality in Energy Policy -- 2. Merging Local Content and Women …’s Economic Empowerment In Tanzania’s Extractive Industries -- 3. Women’s Empowerment through Electrification: What is the … Coal and Energy Sector -- Part II. Women and Gender Inequality in Energy Transition -- 5. Empowering Women in a Climate …
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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can … have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more … tilling, we show that mechanization has led to significantly greater decline in women's than men's labor on Indian farms …
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extensive literature on men's and women's relative productivity in agriculture, most of which concludes that controlling for …Should agricultural development programs target women in order to increase productivity? This paper reviews the … productivity on plots managed by women with those managed by men, ignoring the majority of agricultural households in which men and …
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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can … have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more … tilling, we show that mechanization has led to significantly greater decline in women's than men's labor on Indian farms …
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, policies and practices may target different crops and tasks, they can affect time-use of men, women, boys and girls differently … for the co-dependence and sum constraint of time-use data. The study found that women benefit relatively more from … agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with …
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task typically performed by women. Combining population-wide panel data from the Norwegian registry with municipality …-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural … transformation by displacing young rural women from their traditional jobs on farms in dairy-intensive municipalities. The displaced …
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