This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It … among women by nativity, urbanization, and region of the country. While foreign-born and illiterate women were more likely … greater the slave-intensity of the county, the less likely were free women to report having an occupation, particularly as …

profession overall, she reaped recognition of her pioneering work for furthering the status of women in the profession, receiving … - the main area of work for which she gained recognition - and also draw out some of the particularities of women’s work in …

quality levels among low income men and women is the same. Third, a mobile based micro credit can further enhance financial …, women only, or men and women. The credit scoring factors were estimated and resulting data trained the hidden Markov model … compared to those of the individual households. Peer groups for women only, and those of men and women had superior credit …