stakeholders. Based on the demand from the targeted learners, a competency-based vocational training course especially for women …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

Female labor force participation is mainly driven by the value of women’s market wages versus the value of their non …-market time. Labor force participation by women varies considerably across countries. To understand this international variation … public policies. Such differences provide important insights into what actions countries might take to further increase women …

. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, there were more women on the supervisory boards of the … board already consisted of one-third women, the proportion hardly increased or did not increase at all. The gap between … supervisory and executive boards has also widened because growth in the latter has flattened. Women represent only 6,5 percent of …

. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executive Barometer, at the end of 2016 there were more women on the supervisory boards of the … board already consisted of one-third women, the proportion hardly increased or did not increase at all. The gap between … supervisory and executive boards has also widened because growth in the latter has flattened. Women represent only six percent of …

Women hold only 7.8% of the supervisory board posts in the 200 biggest companies (Top 200) in Germany - outside finance … woman on the supervisory board at all. The share of women on management boards is even smaller. In the 100 biggest companies … percent. These figures show that the aim of equality of opportunity for men and women in top influential posts in large firms …

The share of women on the supervisory boards (Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsräte) of the big banks, savings banks and … insurance companies in Germany is low. In the banking sector it is 15% and in insurance 11%. That women are to be found on most … male hands. Only 2.5% are occupied by women. So there is a huge gap between the high share of women employed in the …

The number of businesses owned and operated by women is increasing rapidly, and women owned businesses are becoming a … powerful economic force. It is estimated that half of the businesses in this country will be owned and operated by women by the … year 2,000. This article describes research conducted on women owned small businesses and the nature of their banking …

Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as … productivity, increases women’s vulnerability to income shocks, and impairs their ability to save for old age. Many developing … countries have introduced social protection programs to protect poor people from social and economic risks, but despite women …