By Greg Seymour, Hazel Malapit, and Agnes Quisumbing Measuring Time Use in Developing Country Agriculture: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda HIGHLIGHTS Time-use surveys are essential for addressing gender disparities, yet little research has compared time-use survey methods in developing countries. Developing country agricultural contexts present unique logistical challenges to time-data […]
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Gender and Asset Ownership in the Old and New Lands of Egypt By Dina Najjar, Bipasha Baruah, and Aman El Garhi HIGHLIGHTS Women are disadvantaged in land ownership in the New and Old Lands in Egypt, though not to the extent the literature has assumed for the MENA region. Patterns […]
Legal Entitlement And Empowerment Of Marriage Immigrants In Korea By Hanol Lee & Dainn Wie HIGHLIGHTS “Marriage immigrants,” women who migrate from developing countries in Asia to marry Korean men, have low levels of empowerment in their households and face discrimination in their communities. Nationality acquisition improves marriage immigrants’ statuses […]
The Development and Implementation of Gender Equality Considerations in Public Procurement in Germany By E.K. Sarter HIGHLIGHTS The EU and member states, including Germany, increasingly aim to use public procurement as a lever to promote (gender) equality. However, the literature suggests low prevalence of equality considerations in public-procurement practices An […]
The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labor Supply and Employment Outcomes in Australia By Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Duncan McVicar, and Bill Martin HIGHLIGHTS Studying the effects of introducing paid parental leave (PPL) in an advanced industrial country is important for the US, which is considering PPL. PPL was […]
Gender Quotas as (Non-)Binding Constraints: the Case of Semi-Open List Formation in Flemish Municipalities By Bruno Heyndels and Colin R. Kuehnhanss HIGHLIGHTS • Women’s representation is a major concern in today’s politics. • Gender quotas in elections are meant to ensure women’s presence on ballots. • In the 2012 Flemish […]
Women’s Bargaining Power and Children’s Schooling Outcomes: Evidence From Ghana By Clifford Afoakwah, Xin Deng, Ilke Onur HIGHLIGHTS • Slow school progression caused by late enrolment and grade repetition is a problem worldwide, especially in developing countries. • This study examines the impact of women’s intrahousehold bargaining power on children’s […]
Sarah Gammage, Naziha Sultana & Allison Glinski Reproductive health and employment are inextricably linked for women. Across the globe, women are the primary caretakers of children, and a woman’s reproductive years tend to overlap with her economically productive years. Planned and unplanned pregnancy and childbearing affect women’s ability to pursue […]
Didem Pekkurnaz The childcare burden is one of the main reasons behind the lower employment rate of women in Turkey, and the opportunity cost of childbearing is high for employed women (especially for those in higher-paid jobs). Since using an effective birth control method allows women to control the timing […]
Felix M. Muchomba, Nan Jiang & Neeraj Kaushal Recent immigration to the United States and other developed nations has increasingly been from countries that have relatively traditional gender norms. This study uses data from the Current Population Survey for 2000–14 to investigate how source-country gender norms influence the labor supply […]