relative productivity. Fertility increased. This caused lower female participation in agriculture and subsistence activities …, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …

) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for Indian rural women. We instrument use of … average is calculated leaving the concerned household. We find no impact of LPG on the probability of women participating in … spent in cooking and employment is mostly driven by married women. …

Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can … have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more … tilling, we show that mechanization has led to significantly greater decline in women's than men's labor on Indian farms …

extensive literature on men's and women's relative productivity in agriculture, most of which concludes that controlling for …Should agricultural development programs target women in order to increase productivity? This paper reviews the … productivity on plots managed by women with those managed by men, ignoring the majority of agricultural households in which men and …

networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated and for … whom peer support may overcome intrahousehold constraints. Enabling women to jointly visit a clinic with other women not …. Moreover, this intervention was more effective in improving reproductive autonomy of women who faced greater intrahousehold …

Women may face systematically greater benefits than men from adopting certain technologies. Yet women often hold lower … preferred by men - in an area with high HIV prevalence. We observe an increase in the likelihood that women have sex and find … strongest adoption of female condoms among women with lower bargaining power, who were previously having unprotected sex. …

It is widely argued that ICTs enable the inclusion of low-skilled and traditionally marginalized groups, such as women … inequalities influence to some extent the level of women's engagement in the labor market. Our results are robust against different …

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is deeply ingrained in the identity of women in many societies, where it symbolizes … practice, particularly among women. The results suggest that the effect is not driven by exposure to online explicit anti …-FGM content. Instead, we find evidence of a broader identity transformation among women, with less stigma around promiscuous …

, policies and practices may target different crops and tasks, they can affect time-use of men, women, boys and girls differently … for the co-dependence and sum constraint of time-use data. The study found that women benefit relatively more from … agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with …