Summaries of Studies on the Economic Status of Women
Author | : American Association of University Women |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : American Association of University Women |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kate Grantham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-03-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000340341 |
This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women’s economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women’s care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in the Global South.
Author | : Ms.Katrin Elborgh-Woytek |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1484371240 |
The proposed SDN discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of women’s participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women from developing their full economic potential. Building on earlier Fund analysis, work undertaken by other organizations and academic research, the SDN presents possible policies to overcome these obstacles in different types of countries.
Author | : World Bank;World Trade Organization |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2020-09-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1464815569 |
Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women’s bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is essential to assess the potential impact of trade policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance opportunities for all. Research on gender equality and trade has been constrained by limited data and a lack of understanding of the connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new sex-disaggregated data, Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality aims to advance the understanding of the relationship between trade and gender equality and to identify a series of opportunities through which trade can improve the lives of women.
Author | : Ata Can Bertay |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2020-07-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1513546279 |
We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality should disproportionately benefit industries with typically higher female share in their employment relative to other industries. Specifically, we exploit within-country variation across industries to test whether those that typically employ more women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal effect of gender inequality on industry growth in value-added and labor productivity. Our findings show that gender inequality affects real economic outcomes.
Author | : Sylvia Chant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789221206088 |
Reviews ILO research on women, gender and the informal economy. It compares and contrasts analytical and methodological frameworks used in various studies, identifies research gaps and directions for future research, and indicates key findings that may assist concerned ILO units in taking action and formulating policy directions.
Author | : Ana María Muñoz Boudet |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 082139892X |
Based on focus groups and interviews with nearly 4,000 women, men, girls, and boys from 20 countries, this book explores areas that are less often studied in gender and development: gender norms and agency. It reveals how little gender norms have changed, how similar they are across countries, and how they are being challenged and contested.
Author | : International Center for Research on Women |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : |
Research paper on the employment of woman workers in developing countries - analyses household activities, female labour force participation, labour supply and labour demand, esp. Agricultural employment and nonfarm employment of rural women, rural migration and men outmigration, unemployment and underemployment, employment opportunities, low wages, employment as domestic workers, in the informal sector or in multinational enterprises, and includes employment policy recommendations.
Author | : Caren Grown |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0415568226 |
Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to improve these women's lives. Because taxes are the key source of revenue governments themselves raise, understanding the nature and composition of taxation and current tax reform efforts is key to reducing poverty, providing sufficient revenue for public expenditure, and achieving social justice. This is the first book to systematically examine gender and taxation within and across countries at different levels of development. It presents original research on the gender dimensions of personal income taxes, and value-added, excise, and fuel taxes in Argentina, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, Uganda and the United Kingdom. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers studying Public Finance, International Economics, Development Studies, Gender Studies, and International Relations, among other disciplines.
Author | : Susan L. Averett |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 889 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0190878266 |
The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affecting not only women but also their partners, children, and indeed nearly every person on the planet. In developed and developing countries alike, women are acquiring more education, marrying later, having fewer children, and spending a far greater amount of their adult lives in the labor force. Yet, because women remain the primary caregivers of children, issues such as work-life balance and the glass ceiling have given rise to critical policy discussions in the developed world. In developing countries, many women lack access to reproductive technology and are often relegated to jobs in the informal sector, where pay is variable and job security is weak. Considerable occupational segregation and stubborn gender pay gaps persist around the world. The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy is the first comprehensive collection of scholarly essays to address these issues using the powerful framework of economics. Each chapter, written by an acknowledged expert or team of experts, reviews the key trends, surveys the relevant economic theory, and summarizes and critiques the empirical research literature. By providing a clear-eyed view of what we know, what we do not know, and what the critical unanswered questions are, this Handbook provides an invaluable and wide-ranging examination of the many changes that have occurred in women's economic lives.