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relative productivity. Fertility increased. This caused lower female participation in agriculture and subsistence activities …, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …
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persistent gap has been identified in the ability of Africa’s female farmers to utilize digital technology for agriculture … unknown. This paper helps to fill in the gap by examining the issues that affect the ability of African women to utilize …
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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can … have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more … tilling, we show that mechanization has led to significantly greater decline in women's than men's labor on Indian farms …
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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can … have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more … tilling, we show that mechanization has led to significantly greater decline in women's than men's labor on Indian farms …
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, policies and practices may target different crops and tasks, they can affect time-use of men, women, boys and girls differently … for the co-dependence and sum constraint of time-use data. The study found that women benefit relatively more from … agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with …
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task typically performed by women. Combining population-wide panel data from the Norwegian registry with municipality …-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural … transformation by displacing young rural women from their traditional jobs on farms in dairy-intensive municipalities. The displaced …
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Women are under-acknowledged participants in Africa's agriculture and food sector, supplying a large share of the … mobility, unequal educational attainment, financial exclusion, and gender norms. As a result, women are being constrained to …. These inequalities translate into lower welfare outcomes for women in addition to inefficient productivity gaps with …
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question is: what forms of support have been provided to forced migrant women from Ukraine in the agriculture and domestic …The aim of this report is to analyse the support provided to Ukrainian women in Poland and Italy displaced as a result … agriculture and domestic services sectors. Both countries have been facing labour shortages in these sectors for some time, with …
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