Women are under-acknowledged participants in Africa's agriculture and food sector, supplying a large share of the … mobility, unequal educational attainment, financial exclusion, and gender norms. As a result, women are being constrained to …. These inequalities translate into lower welfare outcomes for women in addition to inefficient productivity gaps with …

This policy brief on women in entrepreneurship was produced by the OECD and the European Commission. It explores the … that their policies help women to participate in the labour market. This policy brief is part of a series of documents …

of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship …

research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …

The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration … two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … context. Specifically, a separate analysis is made of the association between the employment statuses of women in their first …

Populations become increasingly feminized with age. Since older women are more vulnerable to poverty, they may find it …, and Viet Nam shows that women are more likely to have reported sickness or injury than men, a difference that is … meaningful and statistically significant. While women in Cambodia and the Philippines are more likely to seek treatment than men …

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at … the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use … these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced by …

The proportion of women on the boards of large companies in Germany continued to increase during 2020. In the fourth …, growth was slow, as it was in some of the other groups of companies as well: The proportion of women on the executive boards … 2013, there was even a stagnation in the proportion of women on the executive boards of the DAX 30 companies. The minimum …

women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …