The paper has presented an empirical picture of inequalities, both within and outside the labour market for women, from … gender relations emerging within the framework of overlapping social stratification in rural India. Analysis is based on … participation of women in labour force varies across economic classes, social groups, religions, regions and the rural urban divide …

This paper tries to examine the gendered nature of barriers faced by rural women which intersects financial inclusion … worldwide. Although financial inclusion for rural women has been linked with poverty eradication and economic empowerment, the … delivery of financial products and services to rural women has been at a disadvantageous position. Some of the barriers women …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

Household size in rural China has seen a shrinking trend in the past decades. This has been attributed to the one … households in rural China. Employing nationally representative survey data, empirical evidence indicates that the gender … imbalance has significant positive effects on the probability of married women living apart from parents-in-law. This effect is …