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Alrededor de tres cuartas partes de los pobres del mundo viven en zonas rurales. Entre ellos, la mujer constituye un grupo especialmente vulnerable pero de importancia decisiva para el desarrollo económico y social. Invertir en la mujer rural, por tanto, no es sólo un imperativo moral, sino...
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and shows how women's intensity of work has been increasing faster than that of men, so that by the year 2000 there was … health and work-life balance, and this effect is stronger for women than for men. …
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. Of particular interest is whether women and minority students are more or less likely, holding other things constant, to …
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The CBFM international conference held on 6th and 7th March 2007 in Dhaka, Bangladesh brought together policy makers, scientists and development practioners from all over the world to share experiences in co-mangement of complex wetland environments. This booklet includes abstracts of papers...
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voiced. An example is given of a group of Hindu women who shared stories of domestic violence within a ritual space they … created for this purpose. A faith-based development organization offered the women a secure environment to perform this ritual …
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economic literature believes that married women's entry into market work may have contributed to this by decreasing the gains … though married women's labor supply continues to rise, suggesting that the relationship has changed across time and birth … cohorts. Here I use two cohorts of women, those born between 1944-1954 and those born between 1957-1964, to test whether this …
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Various empirical studies find evidence of that women tend to underestimate the probability that they will work in the … later in life. However, virtually no study investigates the familial, social and economic factors that cause women to plan …/expect not to work. Thus the onus of “incorrect” plans is placed wholly on the women, and society absolved of any …
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The 1826 Banking Act was passed to strengthen the banking sector. It allowed the establishment of joint-stock banks in England and Wales outside a 65-mile radius of Charing Cross, London. Institutions formed under this legislation could have an unrestricted number of partners but they did not...
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Prior studies indicate that incarcerated women are among the most economically disadvantaged populations in the U.S. An … important difference between them and male offenders is that these women are usually custodial parents. Therefore, the …
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although prison is associated with declining employment rates during the quarters leading up to women's incarcerations, it does … not appear to harm their employment prospects later on. In the short-term, we estimate that women’s post-prison employment … fall back to pre-prison levels. But for some groups of women, including those with four or more children, those who served …
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