The UN Conference of Women, held in Beijing in 1995, provided a forum for the exploration of current feminist topics …. This volume presents papers from that conference, discussing in detail issues in gender studies and development, from rural …, sweat-shops, environmental degradation and religion influence the lives of women in different countries. …

may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If employers expect women to do more household work than men, thereby … exerting less effort in their paid job, then women must be more talented to make promotion profitable. Moreover, specialization … in the family will then result in women’s doing most of the household work. Such self-fulfilling prophecies can be …

This article investigates women's economic, political, and social rights in both home and destination countries as … women's economic and social rights at home improve, they are less likely to leave, but women's political rights are a push … factor. Women's economic rights in destination countries attract female migrants of all education levels but more so those …