SOUTH AfricaWEALTH inequalityWOMEN'S empowermentGENDER wage gapGENDER inequalityNET worthNATIONAL incomeDespite widespread recognition that assets are important for economic wellbeing and women's empowerment, there is limited research on gender wealth gaps in either developed or developing countries. This ...
Mosomi J (2019) An empirical analysis of trends in female labour force participation and the gender wage gap in South Africa. Agenda 33(4):29–43 Article Google Scholar Moyo T, Dhliwayo R (2019) Achieving gender equality and Women’s empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the ...
This paper investigates the sources of the possible gender ownership gap in innovativeness in a set of Transition economies by means of firm-level data com
Internet penetration, however, has been shown to be gender-differentiated, and particularly in regions of South Asia and Sub-Saharan and Northern Africa, women have lower levels of internet access than men [18, 22]. Internet access gender gaps may have implications for our gender gap predictions...
"For so many women, this gender wage gap acts as virtual tax, making it so much more difficult to invest in their future," Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, told a virtual conference organized by the think tank on Tuesday. ■News...
The results indicate that gender wage inequality is positively associated with comparative advantage in labor-intensive goods, i.e. countries with a larger gender wage gap have higher exports of these goods. Also, gender inequality in labor force activity rates and educational attainment rates are ...
This study is the first to explore the effects of trade unions on the gender wage gap in China. It uses the national longitudinal survey data of 2014鈥0 to address endogeneity issues. The results demonstrate that the union wage premiums are higher for women than for men, while the probabilit...
and sub-Saharan Africa, the overall gender gap is likely to close within 100 years. In sub-Saharan Africa, it will take 102. But in the Middle East and North Africa, Eurasia and Central Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia, it will take anywhere from 115 to 189 years, ac...
Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ in Africa, Asia and Latin America by Sylvia Chant , Cheltenham , Edward Elgar , 2007 , xxiv + 428 pp . The term “feminization of poverty” (FP) is attributed to sociologist Diana Pearce in her 1978 work, “The ...
A gender-biased GVC effect is in line with the results of Nikulin and Wolszczak-Derlacz (2022) who show that GVCs bring a higher gender wage gap, therefore females can be particularly affected by cross-border production fragmentation. Finally, even though the two-way relationship between ...