A kind of gender revolution is passing through various countries in various continents. By being offered free access to … assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a … set of variables, treated as proxies of gender equality and women entrepreneurship, we estimate their coherence with socio …

In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic … development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over …

Gender relations are a key institution governing important aspects of production and reproduction of societies. They … heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal social institutions. The literature on long‐term drivers of gender gaps … suggests that those gender gaps are related to long‐standing and regularly reproduced gender norms and values related to …

cross-sectional dependence, to inspect the contributions of gender equality and factor income distribution to an economy … evidence, combined with the stylized facts about institutional and economic inequality, suggests that the impact of gender and …

This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

This study reviews the conceptual framework of the economic-productive sphere and of gender equality, the aim of which … opportunities and in rights can be harmonized, though equality of "responsibilities, resources and retribution" by gender are more … difficult to reconcile. Also, women's (economic) empowerment - seen as a way of promoting gender equality - possesses a degree …

differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six … to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences … were positively related to economic development and gender equality. This suggests that greater availability of and equal …