, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has …This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female … property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross …

subsequent increase in women's labor participation have facilitated changes in gender occupational segregation. We assume that in … to slip in the role of the breadwinner due to the absence of men. The process enabled women to gain knowledge and … the remaining labor force and recipient clients. The jobs women perform remain subject to low protection, security, and …

evidence on the implications of women’s use and control of irrigation technologies for outcomes, including crop choice and …Rural household economies dependent on rainfed agriculture are increasingly turning to irrigation technology solutions … increasingly using market-based approaches to disseminate technologies to smallholder farmers, and, although women are among their …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …

The National Policy on Women (Women's Policy) formulated in 1993, aimed to create appropriate structures within … government offices and institutions to establish equitable and gender-sensitive public policies. The Government of Ethiopia in …