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Excess female mortality in AfricaFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Missing women Mortality GenderBook Chapter
Are caste categories misleading? The relationship between gender and jati in three Indian statesFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Autonomy Caste GenderBook Chapter
Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?From the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Social norms Harmful customs GenderBook Chapter
The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughtersFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Development Education Family planningBook Chapter
Gender, Islam, and lawFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Courts Ethnography GenderBook Chapter
Why do women co-operate more in women's groups?From the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Public goods Gender Bayesian estimationBook Chapter
Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectorsFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Gender Norms Labour market participationBook Chapter
IntroductionFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Gender Equality Female empowermentBook
Towards Gender Equity in DevelopmentEarly view: When published this book will become Open Access. As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination, women in the developing world often lack autonomy...
Gender Equality DiscriminationIn the media
UNU-WIDER findings on the positive influence of female elected officials on economic performance makes headlinesReporting on UNU-WIDER research published in the working paper ‘ Women legislators and economic performance ’, news outlets The Quint and ThePrint.in have published articles discussing the impact of women’s participation in...
Gender Politics Economic growthWorking Paper
Maternal mortality and women’s political participationRaising women’s political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9–12 per cent decline in maternal mortality...
Gender Maternal mortality quotasWorking Paper
Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South AfricaIn this paper, I show that occupations in South Africa are segregated and stratified not only by race, but also by gender...
Gender Occupational segregation StratificationJournal Article
Discrimination, Social Capital, and Financial Constraints: The Case of Viet NamThis paper examines the relationship among gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam...
Entrepreneurship Financial constraints GenderWorking Paper
Gender inequality in employment in MozambiqueWe investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding non-subsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector...
Gender Employment EducationWorking Paper
Impact of school feeding programmes on educational outcomes: Evidence from dry cereals in schools in Burkina FasoFood for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s...
Enrolment School attendance GenderWorking Paper
Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectorsOccupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide...
Gender Norms Labour market participation