Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market write by Jorge Saba Arbache. This book was released on 2010-08-05. Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women's earnings are a fraction of male's earnings in several African countries. It is tempting to conclude that this wage gap is a sign of discrimination against women in the labor market. Yet this book uses new datasets to show that the gap is not simply the result of discrimination in the labor markets, but rather the result of multiple factors, including access to education and credit, cultural values and household duties, and, above all, labor market conditions. It shows that gender disparities grow when economies are not functioning well and labor markets are tiny. More than the effect of discrimination, it seems that job rationing causes those with better human capital and those with more power in the household usually the men to take the few jobs that are available. It is hardly surprising, then, that in a region where only a fraction of the labor force finds jobs in the formal sector, gender disparities in earnings are so high. The book further documents that firm-level and sector characteristics are additional powerful factors in explaining the gender disparities in the labor market. As the causes are not simple, neither are the solutions; multifaceted strategies are needed. By providing environments that support economic growth and, more importantly, job creation, as well as by promoting equal access for women to education and rethinking the attitudes that limit what women may achieve, governments in the region will substantially improve the well-being of all their peoples. 'Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market' helps to fill the knowledge gap and identify the links between gender disparities and poverty reduction. The work was implemented in collaboration with a range of poverty and labor market studies to maximize its usefulness for policy dialogue in specific countries. This book will be of interest to policy makers, students, academics, gender experts, and all those interested in gender issues and development.
Women’s Opportunities and Challenges in Sub-Saharan African Job Markets
Women’s Opportunities and Challenges in Sub-Saharan African Job Markets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women’s Opportunities and Challenges in Sub-Saharan African Job Markets write by Ms.Christine Dieterich. This book was released on 2016-06-13. Women’s Opportunities and Challenges in Sub-Saharan African Job Markets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As labor market data is scarce in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this paper uses household survey data to analyze the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market and its welfare implications for five SSA countries in multinomial logit models with propensity score matching method. The analysis confirms that education opens up opportunities for women to escape agricultural feminization and engage in formal wage employment, but these opportunities diminish when women marry—a disadvantage increasingly relevant when countries develop and urbanization progresses. Opening a household enterprise offers women an alternative avenue to escape low-paid jobs in agriculture, but the increase in per capita income is lower than male-owned household enterprises. These findings underline that improving women’s education needs to be supported by measures to allow married women to keep their jobs in the wage sector.
Gender and Time Use in a Global Context
Gender and Time Use in a Global Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Time Use in a Global Context write by Rachel Connelly. This book was released on 2017-07-10. Gender and Time Use in a Global Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender and time use patterns. The book is split in two sections: The macroeconomic portion explores cutting edge issues such as time poverty and its relationship to income poverty, and the macroeconomic effects of recession and austerity; while the microeconomic section studies topics such as differences by age, activity sequencing, and subjective well-being of time spent. The chapters also examine a range of age groups, from the labor of school-age children to elderly caregivers, and analyze time use in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Finland, India, Korea, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, and the United States. Each chapter provides a substantial introduction to the academic literature of its focus and is written to be revealing to researchers and accessible to students and policymakers.
Women and Sustainable Human Development
Women and Sustainable Human Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Sustainable Human Development write by Maty Konte. This book was released on 2019-06-29. Women and Sustainable Human Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries. Topics covered include climate change and environmental degradation, agriculture and land rights, access to – and quality of – education, maternal and reproductive health, unpaid care and women’s labor market participation, financial inclusion and women’s political participation. Cross cutting issues such as migration, masculinities and social norms are also addressed in this volume, which is aimed at policy makers, academics, and indeed anyone else interested in the UN Sustainable Development Goal of the empowerment of women and girls.
Informality and Gender Gaps Going Hand in Hand
Informality and Gender Gaps Going Hand in Hand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Informality and Gender Gaps Going Hand in Hand write by Vivian Malta. This book was released on 2019-05-23. Informality and Gender Gaps Going Hand in Hand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In sub-Saharan Africa women work relatively more in the informal sector than men. Many factors could explain this difference, including women’s lower education levels, legal barriers, social norms and demographic characteristics. Cross-country comparisons indicate strong associations between gender gaps and higher female informality. This paper uses microdata from Senegal to assess the probability of a worker being informal, and our main findings are: (i) in urban areas, being a woman increases this probability by 8.5 percent; (ii) education is usually more relevant for women; (iii) having kids reduces men’s probability of being informal but increases women’s.
