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The digital gender divide : confronting obstacles to women's development in Africa
Alozie, Nicholas O.; Akpan-Obong, Patience - In: Development policy review 35 (2017) 2, pp. 137-160
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What it takes for women to reach the corporate boardrooms in Malaysia
Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail; Intan Maiza Abd. Rahman; Ifa … - In: Corporate ownership & control : international … 14 (2016/2017) 3, pp. 338-344
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795168
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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Burkina Faso
Cortez, Rafael; Bowser, Diana; Quinlan-Davisonson, Meaghen - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Today?s adolescents and youth face substantial physical, social, legal, and economic barriers to meeting their SRH potential. Key factors underlying these issues are a lack of adolescent SRH (ASRH) policies and access to accessible, affordable, and appropriate health services. The impact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213765
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Liberia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper discusses implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) in Liberia. Liberia’s PRS articulates the government’s overall vision and major strategies for moving toward rapid, inclusive, and sustainable growth and development during the period 2008–11. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245748
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The Housing Situation of Lone-Mother Families: Austria and Finland in a Cross-National Perspective
Strell, Monika - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1999
This paper is concerned with lone-mother families in Austria and Finland during the 1990s with a special focus on housing. The main aim is to investigate how the housing situation and housing problems of lone mothers in these two countries are caused and influenced by the welfare, gender and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005236992
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Bayesian inference for non-anonymous growth incidence curves using Bernstein polynomials : an application to academic wage dynamics
Fourrier-Nicolaï, Edwin; Lubrano, Michel - In: Studies in nonlinear dynamics and econometrics : SNDE ; … 28 (2024) 2, pp. 319-336
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014631934
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Gender policy and organizational change: A contextual approach
Skirstad, Berit - In: Sport Management Review 12 (2009) 4, pp. 202-216
The purpose of this article is to draw upon Pettigrew's contextualist approach to organizational change to examine the implications of gender policy on the imbalance between female and male board members in sport organizations. The paper is based on a case study of the General Assembly (GA) of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009217222
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RECON: A Feminist View
Sara Clavero, Yvonne Galligan, Cathrine Holst, Róza Vajda - RECON - 2011
This paper examines the three models of democracy delineated in the RECON project and subjects them to a feminist … appraisal. It begins with some general remarks about what each model of democracy – nation-state audit (model 1), federal … persistence of the audit democracy model, despite the diverging responses to implementing EU-generated equality laws. The process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492801
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A Rights Revolution in Europe? Regulatory and judicial approaches to nondiscrimination in insurance
Mabbett, Deborah - London School of Economics / European Institute - 2011
In a recent decision, the European Court of Justice has ruled that insurers cannot discriminate on grounds of sex in setting premiums or determining benefits. This paper discusses the background to this decision. It asks whether we are seeing a US-style ‘rights revolution’, fuelled by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644126
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Women on Company Boards – An Example of Positive Action in Europe
Oliveira, Álvaro; Gondek, Michal - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2014
In the last decade there has been a rising pressure in Europe to increase the number of women in the boards of large companies. Starting with Norway in 2003, several countries adopted legislation for this purpose. Building on this evolution, in November 2012 the European Commission presented a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814351