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This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …
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institutionalization and homelessness, especially among men and as a result there are stark gender ratio imbalances among this population …. We speculate that this gender imbalance may play a role in excess female mortality in addition to several other …
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A well-known demographic feature in several East and South Asian countries is the continuing decline in the proportion of girls to boys. In India, till recently, the skewed sex ratio was treated as a Northern and Western Indian phenomenon. However, analysis of the 2001 Census shows that some of...
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gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer …
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gender and needs commensurate interventions. …
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This paper examines the impact of return migration from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf on the transfer of gender norms to … from Saudi Arabia tend to exhibit conservative values regarding gender-based violence and extreme attitudes pertaining to … of returning migrants from Saudi Arabia toward gender-based violence were more conservative by three standard deviations …
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India has been known as the land of many cultures. Gujarat, an Indian state, has reflected this special aspect for over a millennium. In addition to the people of different religious faith like Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Christian and Zorastrian, various caste groups within the Hindus and migrant...
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findings show that the daughter-in-law's participation in paid work increases in the presence of her mother-in-law and she … allocates more time to paid work and less time to household production. The effect is evident for the daughters-in-law who co …-in-law's presence consistently diminishes the daughter-in-law's engagement in paid work and increases both women's time spent on …
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