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girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate … exacerbate conditions of vulnerability for girls and women. With a keen eye towards justice, author Kathryn Moeller concludes … that these corporatized development practices de-politicize girls' and women's demands for fair labor practices and a just …
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It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than...
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Although girls are approximately half the youth population in developing countries, they contribute less than their … potential to the economy. The objective of this paper is to quantify the opportunity cost of girls' exclusion from productive … employment with the hope that stark figures will lead policymakers to reconsider the current underinvestment in girls. The paper …
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with detailed information on teenage jobs allows for a comparison of the behavior of boys and girls who are in the same … substantially more than girls. The earnings gap cannot be explained by differences in participation rates and hours of work, nor by … gender wage gaps within job types. It is entirely due to the fact that girls work more in job types with relatively low wages …
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We examine the impact of a large, randomized Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) project in rural Zimbabwe. The … multifaceted project initially provided information about girls' rights and education barriers to girls, parents, teachers, and …
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