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This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … association with women's empowerment while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriage were negatively …
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Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous … setting. Women in British territories benefited from a universal education system and gained opportunities for paid employment …
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This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … association with women's empowerment while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriage were negatively …
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Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path … productive assets to increase women's empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention increases … women's access to resources and agency by a substantial amount. In contrast, a behavior change intervention (training …
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Domestic violence against women is a pervasive public health problem in all countries regardless of cultural, economic … examine the effect of women's employment on domestic violence using the Demographic and Health Survey in Ethiopia. To address … the endogeneity of women's employment decisions due to reverse causality, the study employs an Instrumental Variables …
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This study aims to investigate an extensive evaluation of the relationship between economic globalization and women … participation rate (FLFPR), an indicator of women's economic empowerment and export-GDP ratio, and FDI, an indicator of economic … globalization. The research examines econometrically whether economic globalization such as export-GDP ratio and FDI influence FLFPR …
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This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of … capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital …-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital …
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