This paper aims to provide a synthesis of prior conceptual and empirical work on the presence of women on corporate … boards. Despite much progress in many spheres of society, the presence of women on the boards of North American listed firms … appointment of women on corporate boards. Such lack of progress is surprising despite the many potential advantages of gender …

Mail questions addressed in this paper are: What is the cognitive perception of Muslim women on their own status in … their community? How do the Muslim women perceive their status when compared to their neighbouring non Muslim women? Does … Islam acts as an impediment against the empowerment of its women as perceived by the women? What is the opinion of Muslim …

Purpose – A significant trend in the retail sector is women's over-representation in part-time work. Given the …

This paper takes a look at the women urban industrial labour force in India. [Working Paper No. 127] …

Neoliberal structural adjustment policies (SAPS) have been criticized as having negative effects on women's employment … differences in the growth of women's relative employment. Countries with less orthodox adjustment policies appear to have had … greater growth in women's relative employment than countries with more orthodox policies. This pattern is illustrated with …

In Bangladesh, women are about half of the total population and most of them are dependent on family head such as … husband, elder son or daughter. Recognizing this fact, Government has changed its policy regarding women and has acknowledged … the fact that equal participation of women in the development activities is inev itable to ensure a balanced socio …

A study of the women dacoits of the Chambal valley was undertaken to determine what special circumstances exist which … pressurize women to take up dacoity, or whether these outlaws had a psychopathic disposition. The study sample consisted of 30 … women dacoits from 8 districts in the state of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, and 100 normals (non-criminals) from each …

to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA …