study the effect of several measures of female empowerment including female labour market participation on gender obesity … runs indeed from empowerment, proxy it by both labour market and political participation to gender obesity gaps and not …The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are …

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has made impressive strides in reducing gender gaps in human development …), and fertility rates have decreased in the past decade. Although gender gaps in school completion rates still exist in some … MENA countries, most countries are well on their way to achieving gender parity in key human development indicators. …

This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance gender equality as well as performance-related pay (PRP) that is one … period part-time work is found to result in a decrease in the proportion of female directors (or exacerbating gender …

This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with … that descending from more gender-equal societies makes girls relatively more prone to smoke than boys. Using data from over … that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of ancestry, the higher the likelihood that immigrant girls …