This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

Based on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women's low labour force participation. In … developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers. Women are … leads to mismeasurement of women's work. Religion and visible markers such as veiling are not significant determinants of …

This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents …, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … rebel groups, emphasizing how women operate within the command structure. While there is a growing trend in assessing the …

design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …, through their effects on workingage women's employment in the 2000s. We also discuss the extent to which women's employment is … areas of financial services, labour market regulations, and entrepreneurship support, and women's labour market position has …

protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective of working-age women. Drawing on a scoping review of diverse evidence … arrangements, significant inequalities in access to social protection persist for women across the formal and informal sectors … child grants allocated to the main caregiver has great potential to promote women's empowerment and the achievement of SDGs …

This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re … women in rural India, and was inexplicably shut down in 2014. We argue that a combination of political philosophy, electoral … programmes such as Mahila Samakhya, which called for a long and messy process of collectivization of the most marginalized women …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last 20 years. While there is … evidence that raising the share of women politicians has substantive impacts on the composition of government spending, there … competitive elections to India's state legislative assemblies, exploiting close elections between men and women to isolate the …

to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more … greater equality is rooted in educational opportunities; and argues that both educational provision, and women's entry into … developing economies. -- elites ; higher education ; women ; development ; economic history ; families …

,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …, particularly for female-headed households. Women continue to bear a greater burden of responsibility for income …