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gender inequality in the spread of HIV/AIDS in India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses data from National Aids … status of women in India. Policymakers need to focus on gender inequality in order to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in India … spread of HIV/AIDS across gender. In particular, a potentially important factor – the low status of women in society is …
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newspapers such as The Pioneer received and filtered news, especially gender‐related and nationalist‐related events and thinking … on both economics and ideology – a neglected aspect of Indian gender scholarship and economic history.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine trends in gender inequalities in the Russian labour market between …/methodology/approach – The paper examines gender occupational segregation using the dataset from a nationally representative longitudinal survey … – The KM Index declined over this period, indicating a reduction in the extent of gender inequality, However, the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse determinants of occupational allocation by gender, in Russia, between …/methodology/approach – Multinomial logit was chosen as the estimation technique for this analysis. Findings – It was found that gender significantly … segregation by gender is a large and economically significant factor in the Russian labour market, even after controlling for …
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's progress in population stabilization and development, and the setbacks it faces in terms of gender inequalities. Region and …
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A major objective of the Israeli Old Age and Survivors (OAS) programme is focused on: redistribution of income. The effects on income distribution within one generation and across generations are studied. It was found that the programme is very effective. It takes more than 4 per cent of the...
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Poverty numbers have decreased in the United States over the past few decades but these statistics tend to mask trends for different demographic groups. Aged women living alone make up 95 per cent of on‐family households, and 47 per cent of these women had annual incomes of less than $10,000...
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Some evidence for the nexus of child care services, labour force participation, fertility, and family income inequality of working mothers in the US is presented in a cause‐effect framework. Based on sample data of 100 SMSAs in 1980, the study finds that the provision of child care services...
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Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world. In 1988‐89, 48 per cent of rural and 44 per cent of urban households had a daily per capita consumption of less than 2,122 calories ‐ the cut‐off point for absolute poverty in Bangladesh. Although poverty is prevalent amongst men as...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how gender differences are rubbed out and simultaneously reinforced in … practices that reproduce the gender biases against women participation to seafaring because the socialisation of cadets are … contradictory rubbing out and reproducing of gender differentials are observed. This shows how controlling gender is difficult …
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