This article explores the gender biases of recessions and policy responses they have entailed in France and Germany in the 2000s. During the Great Recession, France experienced a significant rise in both female and male unemployment. Germany apparently witnessed a gendered ?employment miracle?...

Education, as an integral part of the international system of exchange values is mainly achieved through the education system and professional training. Education should solve partially certain problems that are currently being faced by our society, aspect that requires both improving the...

The objective of this article consists of analyzing the impact of the economic on working careers of different birth cohorts. We use the micro-data of the Spanish Labour Force Survey from 1976 to 2013 to calculate the labour market trajectory of men and women by birth cohort. During the crisis,...

Based on an analysis of gender inequalities, strategies and promising initiatives to countergender discrimination and promote equality between men and women in Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines, as well as an inventory of global good legal, economic, and social practices, this report...

Increasing job opportunities and decent work for women are essential for advancing economic and social development in countries, because many women continue to experience gender inequalities at work. An analysis of strategies to counter gender discrimination and promote equality between men and...