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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
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Gender discrimination in the labour market has been a subject of various social and political debates all around the … widens as women climb up the corporate ladder. Also, on evaluation of different industries, a variation in the gender pay gap …
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inventories to collect gender-disaggregated data to advise policy on which sectors hinder women's participation as well as a new …
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This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...
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, a large pre-existing gender digital divide in India has further exacerbated the problem of access to information and … ramifications for female education, drop-out rate and employment. Experts are calling for targeted action to counter this gender … paper is to explore the gender aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India and its impact on Indian economy and …
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Objective – The main aim of the present study is to find the effects of work life balance of the women journalists of south Tamil Nadu on their level of job satisfaction.Methodology/Technique – The data were collected keeping in consideration features such as age, monthly income and marital...
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poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …
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. Specifically, we ask if a student benefits by learning from a teacher of her same gender. Unlike the existing literature which … explains such interaction through role model effect or Pygmalion effect, we explain such interaction in terms of gender based … positive gender matching effect only for urban, private schools. We find support for our theoretical predictions when we test …
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