apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries … of missing women are confirmed. The one finding that remains and deserves further attention is some evidence of gender …

Globally, there is a significant gender gap between men and women with regards to political participation; however … inclusion of women in elite political positions encourages women's political participation at the citizen level and can reduce …, we employ an interactive multi-level model that controls for the sex of the respondent, the level of women in the …

community health workers, physician, nurses and midwives and hospital beds improve women access to healthcare facilities in … available to women while electricity access and private health expenditure enhances women access to quality healthcare delivery …, women health outcomes were more responsive to health service utilization; implying that service utilization is an important …

This study assesses the relationship between globalisation and the economic participation of women (EPW) in 47 Sub … (relative to restrictions). Policy implications are discussed with some emphasis on how to elevate women's social status and …

with propensity score matching method. The analysis confirms that education opens up opportunities for women to escape … agricultural feminization and engage in formal wage employment, but these opportunities diminish when women marry - a disadvantage … increasingly relevant when countries develop and urbanization progresses. Opening a household enterprise offers women an …

how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and … reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …

This collection of case studies compares the strategies of ten women in eight sub-Saharan African and Latin American … challenges faced by women entrepreneurs and farmers in low-income countries, little research has documented the strategies women … farmed in a sustainable way that benefits growers' communities' food security, health, water, and land …