’s – structures, procedures and cultures – to create better environments which are conducive to the promotion of gender equality … analysis to the salary gender gap and women participation in the public sector as we think this is a key approach of better … of all disposable data to observe the discrepancies regarding men and women, and perform the gender analysis; • the …

agriculture. Further, greater participation of women in agriculture significantly contributes to female autonomy in farm decision …

women moved to urban areas where they acquired a higher level of education and found better-paid employment. These findings …This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural … task typically performed by women. Combining population-wide panel data from the Norwegian registry with municipality …

traded. In this paper we examine the gender implications in modern supply chains. We conceptualize the various mechanisms … through which women are directly affected, we review existing empirical evidence and add new survey-based evidence. Empirical … findings from our own survey suggest that modern supply chains may be associated with reduced gender inequalities in rural …

indoor piped drinking water (IPDW) on employment and earnings by gender, the self-reported health of women, the prevalence of … increases the likelihood of women's overall employment by 0.33 percentage points and women's wage/salary employment by 0 …The disproportionate burden of water collection, maintenance, and service for women in developing economies calls for a …

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the … was partly explained by the drastic increases in the school attainment of women, the reduction in fertility and the … show that social norms, attitudes towards women in the society and public policies are important determinants of these …

mobility. This limits women’s labor market opportunities and the pool of workers that firms, can attract. In this study, we …, women, and the differential impact of, transport exclusively for women. We show that reducing physical mobility constraints … has a large, impact on job searching for women, including women who are not searching at baseline. Women’s, response is …

intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … brief case study of women's labour force participation in India, where the direct link between gender attitudes and women …Women have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility. In contrast, new research focuses on the …

's rural areas on three labor market outcomes: labor force participation decision, sector of employment, and labor income. In … the contrary, men living farther away from urban and maquila jobs are more likely to work. However, women living in … greater isolation are highly concentrated in own-production agricultural activities, where women's skills are rewarded less …

and inheritance and have found that, although the constitutions in many countries guarantee gender equality, many laws … agricultural production, both of which have implications for gender issues. In this paper we briefly review issues related to … gender and poverty and examine the relationships between gender and various indices, including the human development index …