This paper studies employment patterns and trends in South Asia to shed light on determinants of extremely low female … employment rates in the region. After a comprehensive literature review, we use employment data from about one hundred censuses … and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to compare employment trends …

. Women can be targeted in a myriad of ways, by an array of types of perpetrators, during and outside of periods of conflict …

female labor force participation and employment, and a positive impact on marrying at a young age. Furthermore, we explore …

wage-employment is not affected by migration, time-use model estimations reveal that wage-employed women are mostly …