were much more likely to suffer income losses than employees. Among the self-employed, women were 35% more likely to … experience income losses than men, as women are disproportionately working in industries that are more severely affected by the …

reached 11.0% in the last quarter of 2019 ( IBGE, 2019 ). Women have been occupying an important space in the country … entrepreneurial activities performed by these women, since in a country like Brazil, transformations brought by innovative thoughts … genders, even among women, the impact of changes in society occurs in different ways, and the “pure” concept of …

child penalty and the prevailing gender norms and family policies in the region. We find that motherhood reduces women …

More than 65 million poor people have accessed microcredit schemes and about three quarters of them are women. This … paper addresses the challenging issue of whether the microcredit programmes are tools for empowering poor women. For this … purpose the problem is identified as ― to what extent micro credit influences empowering poor women in rural areas. The prime …

Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as … productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks, and impairs their ability to save for old age. Many developing … countries have introduced social protection programs to protect poor people from social and economic risks, but despite women …

Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as … productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks, and impairs their ability to save for old age. Many developing … countries have introduced social protection programs to protect poor people from social and economic risks, but despite women …