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 …

In recent decades, women's participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most countries and is … be occurring in the criminal world, though many more men than women still engage in criminal activity. Technological … progress and social norms have freed women from the home, increasing their participation in both the labor market and the crime …

travel for new activities. This paper seeks to obtain more insight into how women in Greece allocate their time during, a … analysis of the data collected shows that women living in less favourable regions, prefer to use traditional means of transport … conditions. Moreover, women with children tend to use e-means for longer periods, when executing specific activities during a …

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 …

Introduction: Migration has contributed to the economic empowerment of women in West Africa. Empowerment can be … cases migration can be part of an economic empowering process for women. Case description: This paper addresses the question … of entrepreneurial empowerment (perceived as positive economic impact even when women did not participate in the decision …