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Socioeconomic and cultural drivers of women's formal work in rural Ghana
Groß, Elena; Frempong, Raymond Boadi - 2021
We study socioeconomic indicators of female labour force participation in off-farm formal employment in a subsistence agriculture setting in northern Ghana, where a new commercial farm provides a positive demand shock for low-skilled labour. We use a set of quantitative and qualitative data...
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Measuring women's agency
Donald, Aletheia; Koolwal, Gayatri; Annan, Jeannie; … - In: Feminist economics 26 (2020) 3, pp. 200-226
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Women in accounting occupations int he 1880 US Census
Roberts, Diane H. - In: Accounting history review 23 (2013) 2, pp. 141-160
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009789626
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Women's asset ownership : evidence from Georgia; Mongolia; and Cavite, Philippines
Joshi, Kaushal; Swaminathan, Hema; Martinez, Arturo; … - 2019
promoting gender equality in education and health. However, progress has not been as remarkable in advancing women’s rights on … asset ownership and control, which is critical for securing gender equity in economic participation and opportunity, and … sexdisaggregated data on the topic. The Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) initiative aims to develop standardized methods …
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Women in Canada : a gender-based statistical report
Kanada / Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division; … - Ottawa : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] - Nachgewiesen Ed. 5.2005(2006) -
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Strategic fertility behaviour, early childhood human capital investments and gender roles in Albania
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2018
Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule, and twenty five years of economic transition. Substantial contemporary birth masculinisation is concentrated amongst higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a...
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The effects of labor market characteristics on women’s poverty in Korea
Park, Yhesaem; Heshmati, Almas - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/110, pp. 1-16
Background: Poverty in Korea is not gender neutral. Both male headed and female headed households experience poverty in … distinct ways. This research discusses poverty and how it has evolved in Korea from a gender perspective. Methods: It describes … the characteristics of poverty among the working population based on gender and other household attributes. It measures …
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50 years of breakthroughs and barriers : women in economics, policy, and leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2024
inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062106
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Gender quotas and women's political leadership
O'Brien, Diana Z.; Rickne, Johanna - 2014
Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women's political leadership …
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Gendered impacts of COVID-19 in developing countries
Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Manysheva, Kristina; … - 2022
In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in...
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