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Determinants of female entrepreneurship in India

Daymard, Arnaud - 2015

This paper examines the nature and determinants of female entrepreneurship in India based on survey data. The first … part assesses basic characteristics of female entrepreneurship in India, while the subsequent sections analyse key … determinants of female entrepreneurship based on the literature, and test their importance at the state level in India with the …

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Determinants of the low female labour force participation in India

Sorsa, Piritta; Mareš, Jan; Didier, Mathilde; … - 2015

The low and declining female labour force participation rate in India despite strong growth over the past decade is … inclusive growth, and wellbeing. Assessing determinants of the labour force participation of women in India can open important … policy insights. This paper first describes key employment trends in India by gender. Then the potential determinants of …

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Universal Forms of Influence : Support for Women on Boards

Schipani, Cindy A.; Caproni, Paula - 2023

It makes little business sense not to have greater female representation in positions of power. Studies over many years indicate that companies benefit in several ways by having a gender diverse board. A diverse board may signal flexibility, creative thought, and open-mindedness, among other...

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WOMEN – SCIENCE – TECHNOLOGY: ANALYSIS OF A CASE STUDY

Calcatelli, Anita; Coccia, Mario; Ferraris, Katia; … - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2003

Nowadays, a very little attention has been dedicated to gender studies in science and technology. In particular, very few researches deal with women vertical, but also orizontal, segregation in public research institutions. The main purpose of this work is to analyze the phenomenon of glass...

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Falling Between the Cracks : Discrimination Laws and Older Women

McLaughlin, Joanne Song - 2020

Theories and evidence suggest that older women may experience unique discrimination for being both old and female in the workplace. To provide remedy for this type of discrimination – known as intersectional discrimination – legal scholars argue that age and sex discrimination laws must be...

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Dominance and Democracy : the Legacy of Woman Suffrage for the Voting Right

Lind, JoEllen - 2009

This Article explores the history of American women's long struggle for the vote; it does so to illuminate the efficacy of the franchise to produce political emancipation. This history reveals that struggles over constitutional values and rights are so often a story of how the dominance of one...

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Economic violence among women of economically backward Muslim minority community : the case of rural North India

Ohlan, Ramphul - In: Future Business Journal 7 (2021), pp. 1-11

Muslim minority community by taking a sample of 387 women from rural areas of North India within a framework of domestic … violence. It is shown that economic violence against Muslim women perpetrated by their husbands exists in India. Economic …

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Fertility, Religion and Female Literacy : Analysis of 2001 Population Census of India

Siddhanta, Suddhasil - 2017

Fertility differentials among the Hindus and the Muslims in India are a matter of concern, which attracts scholars of … different disciplines not only in India, but also outside as well. But surprisingly systematic analysis of fertility pattern …

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Progress toward increasing women's and minorities' access to top state government jobs?

Lewis, Gregory B.; Boyd, Jonathan; Pathak, Rahul - In: Public personnel management 51 (2022) 2, pp. 213-234

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Proportion of women on top-decision making bodies of large companies increasing, except on supervisory boards in the financial sector

Kirsch, Anja; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 4/5, pp. 32-42

The share of women on executive boards of large companies in Germany has increased somewhat more strongly than in previous years. The top 200 companies reached the ten percent mark for the first time: women held 14 more board positions than in the previous year, 94 out of 907. Growth was also...

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