This document, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and UN Women, has been …-responsible between the State, the market, the community, and families, and between men and women. …

. These women invest more in their own human capital within marriage, which might insure them against increases in exogenous …We study associations among women's current marital status, past marital history, and later-life labor force … employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross …

. These women invest more in their own human capital within marriage, which might insure them against increases in exogenous …We study associations among women's current marital status, past marital history, and later-life labor force … employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross …

A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the … required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …. The third is to investigate the potential impacts of the Marriage Bar on women's behavior with respect to employment …

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 …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …