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Social norms as a barrier to women’s employment in developing countriesThis paper discusses cultural barriers to women’s participation and success in the labor market in developing countries...
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Progressive research with amazing people in a beautiful sauna-crazy country: Pui Yi Wong - 2018 PhD FellowIn the fall of 2018 UNU-WIDER welcomed 11 doctoral students from around the world as part of our PhD Fellowship Programme ...
UNU-WIDER PhD Fellowship WIDER Seminar Series CultureBook Chapter
Bride price and the wellbeing of womenFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Culture Marriage customs early marriageWorking Paper
Fishermen’s wives: On the cultural origins of violence against womenWe study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from (a) characteristics of the traditional subsistence problem in different societies, and (b) differences in the sexual division of la...
Violence against women Culture Marine resourcesWorking Paper
Bride price and the well-being of womenBride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom’s family to the bride’s family at the time of marriage, is a common cultural practice in many African societies...
Culture Marriage customs early marriage