educational infrastructure, women become better educated, improve their skills and capabilities, gain possibilities to enter the … labour market and use financial resources to start up their own businesses. All these bring women to play a role on the … labour market and significantly contribute to overall socio-economic development. The women entrepreneurship unfolds various …

This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries … more detail specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women’s employment. I present examples of policies …

Santiago business license registry, census data and the trademark registry. The evidence reveals that business women in … evidence shows women increasingly as business people: half of the economic sectors analyzed had female entrepreneurs while … firms run by women increased from 13 to 20 percent in Santiago, but reached only 5 percent of national firms within the …

, differences in levels of FLFP across the world related to historical contingencies are much more important determinants of women … comparisons and allow for a direct test of the effect of structural change on women's economic activity. Our results suggest that …

developing countries (LDCs). Women and girls are especially affected by those conditions. This chapter will review the … implications that the lack of access to water and sanitation poses to women and answer the following question: Are there effec …- tive instruments that can be used to tackle the lack of access to water and sanitation for women and girls? The authors …