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Educational Status of Women in Odisha
Mishra, Aparimita - 2022
The progress in the spread of education in Odisha, though remarkable in the past decades, remains uneven and unequal across the regions and communities. Based on various secondary data sources, this study has attempted to assess the educational status of women in the state. It examines different...
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Are Students Really Biased against Female Professors? - Experimental Evidence from India
Arora, Puneet; Roy, Moumita - 2023
experiment in India. We employ a novel experimental design, randomly assigning 504 economics students to an identical audiovisual …
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Strengthening skill use and school-to-work transitions in the Czech Republic
Araújo, Sónia; Maleček, Petr - 2015
The education system has reacted slowly to changes in labour market needs, leading to an increasing number of school leavers without sufficient qualification. In addition, declining PISA scores and a rising share of low achievers are raising concerns about the quality of the future labour force....
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Machine Learning and Meaningful Careers : Increasing the Number of Women in STEM
Hoffman, Sarah; Friedman, Hershey H. - 2018
Meaningful work that gives one a sense of purpose is of great importance to young people who are entering the workforce, especially women. They are even willing to earn less money, provided that they work at a meaningful job. Only 17.9% of computer science graduates are female. More women might...
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Role of Education in Women Empowerment and Development : Issues and Impact
Shetty, Sowjanya; Hans, V. Basil - 2015
educate a whole family. Women empowered means mother India empowered”. When women who contribute almost half of the population … access to education notwithstanding, gender discrimination still persists in India and lot more needs to be done in the field … of women's education in India. Women have so much unexplored potential which has never been tapped. As education is both …
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Women's Education in India : Trends, Interlinkages and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa - 2007
qualitative aspects of School Education System in India in recent years with a special focus on Women's education. It is observed … infrastructural problems are identified as responsible for the ills plaguing the elementary education system in India. Providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777053
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Two for the price of one? : the contribution to development of the new female elites
Wolf, Alison - 2010
This paper describes the very different role played by female elites in contemporary developing countries, as compared to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more important in business and politics in today's developing...
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Faculty service loads and gender : are women taking care of the academic family?
Guarino, Cassandra Marie; Borden, Victor M. H. - 2016
This paper investigates the amount of academic service performed by female versus male faculty. We use 2012 data from an online annual performance reporting system for tenured and tenure‐track faculty at two campuses of a large public, Midwestern university as well as 2014 data from a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496936
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Why So Few? An Identity Model of Women's Career Choice in Economics
Lombardini-Riipinen, Chiara - 2011
Women are underrepresented in economics. This underrepresentation concerns undergraduates, postgraduates, and tenured academics and increases as one climbs the academic ladder (See e.g. Ginther & Kahn 2004, Fraumenti 2010, 2009, Rask & Tiefenthaler 2008, Toivanen 2009).This paper proposes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128059
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Do Relative Disadvantages in College Reinforce Women's Glass Ceiling?
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2020
Worldwide, women remain underrepresented in management roles, and the environment in which women are professionally trained seems to matter. This study exploits a setting where college students are split into two groups based on entry-level scores. Throughout college, students in the same group...
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