worldespecially women and childrenspend long hours performing unpaid work. This work includes not only household maintenance and care …, and unpaid work, on the other, well-designed employment guarantee policies can promote job creation, gender equality, and …

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and …"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty reduction and women's equality will be reversed. Indeed, for many … well-known and less discussed paths of transmission through which crises affect women's world of work and overall wellbeing …

for genderinformed public job creation in areas that mitigate the time-tax" burdens of women, and examines a South African …

growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender … gender convergence, and novel perspectives on remaining gender gaps. The paper finally emphasizes the interplay between … gender trends and the evolution of the industry structure. Based on a shift-share decomposition, it shows that the growth in …

opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and … standpoint of women's inclusion in economic life. Conditional cash transfers and employment guarantee programs are discussed in …

-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to prefer fulltime work, although the preference for working longer … that partnered women with children, poor women or women working in the informal sector are more likely to prefer full …-time work than single women, partnered women without children, non-poor women or women working in the formal sector. These …

of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the …We need to go beyond the accepted notions relating to the role of women in the economy and society, especially in terms … man as the breadwinner and the woman in the role of housekeeper, do not explain the contribution of women in general. We …

willingness of men and women to make risky decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the amount of risk men and women take for the group … lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is … generally lower than in the case where subjects decide for themselves only, indicating a cautious shift. The women that would …