This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the … biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under …-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk averse than men in some settings; and, most importantly, women …

The paper argues for increasing women's economic opportunities in the APEC region and states that women's participation … informal economy. It summarizes the challenges commonly encountered by women entrepreneurs in the APEC economies and recommends …

, this study examines the association between the type of domestic cooking fuel and the health of women aged ≥16 in rural …, compared to women whose households cook with dirty fuels like wood/straw, women whose households cook with cleaner fuels like … after controlling for unobserved individual heterogeneity, we find some evidence that women in households cooking with LNG …

A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the … required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …. The third is to investigate the potential impacts of the Marriage Bar on women's behavior with respect to employment …

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …

the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …