women from working overtime exceeding two hours a day; six hours a week; and 150 hours a year. The 1985 amendments exempted … a variety of occupations and industries from such overtime restriction on women. We first define "jobs" using an … exempt from the overtime restriction on women by the 1985 amendments. Applying a difference-in-difference model to census …

-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner, which makes them difficult identify as a high … serostatus, as HIV-positive women were significantly (p<0.001) more likely to have a low level of education than their HIV … had attended secondary or higher education institutions (OR=2.27, CI=1.40 - 3.68). Results illustrate that Indian women …

This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in … the female brain drain ratio. This is consistent with, at low levels of women's rights, prohibitively high costs of …

Violence has a striking gender pattern. Men are more likely to be attacked by a stranger, while women experience … violence mostly from their partners. This paper estimates the costs of violence against women in terms of intangible outcomes …, such as women’s reproductive health, labor supply, and the welfare of their children. The study uses a sample of nearly 83 …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …

Does the enfranchisement of women lead to an increase in public support for government spending? By utilizing a natural … place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in February 1971, and the other thereafter. To shed light on the …

Employing economic and social globalization indicators, we empirically analyze whether globalization affects women … social globalization positively affects both women's economic and social rights, while the impact of economic globalization …" problems, prevailing in developing countries. However, (marginalized) foreign women, proxied with inflows of human trafficking …

more resilient than those of male migrants, owing to these women's stronger links to family members left behind and self …