...Anthony Asare Aninagyei; Priscilla Twumasi Baffour; Prince Adjei Purpose The study examines gender disparities in the performance of informal sector enterprises in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale, with a focus on differences in firm productivity between male- and female-owned businesses. Design...

...Vandana Sehgal Purpose The present study examines the determinants of households’ access to agricultural credit through institutional and non-institutional sources. The study evaluates the role of gender of the borrowers in accessing credit in rural India. Further, the paper also studies...

...Sabiha Afrin; Md. Khaled Saifullah Purpose As women perform most household chores and other nonproductive work, gender-based division of labor in the home has now been identified as a barrier to gender equality. The objective of this study is to assess the effects of gender distribution...

... well-being and employee productivity via employee happiness while exploring the moderating role of gender in this mediated relationship. Design/methodology/approach Using partial least squares approach for structural equation modeling, the hypothesized model was tested employing primary data...

... 2022 06 04 2023 20 05 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Gender Human capital Socioeconomic status Occupation Intergenerational transmission Historically, social scientists have been interested...

... of enrolling a child in a childcare centre. We also add up to the literature on gender gaps in labour markets (Kleven et al., 2019 ; Addati et al., 2014) and on the pandemic's gendered impact (Del Boca et al., 2020 ; Alon et al., 2020 ; Dang and Nguyen, 2021...

... and cultural factors are responsible for such disparities in occupational choices. The purpose of this study is to examine this gender dimension of occupational diversification for rural India and focuses on the role of education, caste and land ownership in explaining employment probabilities across gender...

... rights only Social networks Labor market Quality of employment Gender Discrete choice models Algeria Empirical works show that there is no consensus on the effects of age, race and ethnicity on the use of social networks. According to Bortnick and Ports (1992), the young unemployed use...

...Oyetola Folake Oyewunmi; Oluwakemi Adeola Obayelu Purpose Poverty is endemic in rural Nigeria and gender disparity in access to productive resources is a major cause of poverty in the area. Poverty status of rural households along gender line was, therefore, investigated in this study. Design...

...Izabel Faustino; Katy Maia; Magno Rogerio Gomes; Paulo Mourao; Elisangela Araujo Purpose This paper analyzes the issue of wage differentials and gender discrimination in the Brazilian labor market. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is based on the log-linear equation model by Mincer...

...Melaku Abegaz; Hossein Eftekari Purpose This paper examines the gender achievement gap in the Ethiopian secondary education system using tenth-grade national examination results for the period 2002/03–2013/14. Design/methodology/approach Statistical tests are employed to determine equality...

... satisfaction and intrinsic job satisfaction. It also has been revealed that male employees are less likely than female employees to stay in the company for the next 5 years ceteris paribus. According to the survey results, there was no significant impact of education level, gender, marital status or job field...

...Suheela Shabir; Jabir Ali Purpose This paper investigates the magnitude of financial inclusion in terms of ownership and usage of financial products across gender in Saudi Arabia based on the World Bank's Global Financial Inclusion (GFI) survey data. Design/methodology/approach This study...

... whether these differences constitute discrimination for policy attention. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts both quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches to assess the extent of gender inequality in employment and earnings in the Ghanaian extractive sector and the sources...

... and replacement rates. Also, commentators suspect many of the austerity policies pursued may have an unacknowledged, yet a significantly negative impact from a gender equality perspective (Barry and Conroy, 2013). Edel Walsh can be contacted at: e.walsh@ucc.ie 07 05 2020 05 11 2020 12...

... a significant factor, with older accounting practitioners being stricter in their ethical stance. To a lesser extent, gender is also significant, with females exhibiting higher ethical judgements than males. Research limitations/implications The regression model reports an adjusted R-squared...

...Chanyalew Seyoum Aweke; Edward Lahiff; Muluken Gezahegn Wordofa; Jemal Y. Hassen Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine household food gap and food insecurity in Eastern Ethiopia. Differences in food gap and food insecurity were also examined in terms of gender of the household head...

...Ha Thi Thuy Nong; Christopher Gan; Baiding Hu Purpose This study analyses climate change vulnerability and adaptation in a northern province in Vietnam from the gender perspective. Design/methodology/approach A survey questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The Livelihood...

... for rural India. Social implications The paper recommends increasing women's access to financial services as an effective tool for reducing poverty and lowering income inequality in rural India. Originality/value This article contributes to the scant empirical literature on finance and gender. FI...

... of the flexible hours. Design/methodology/approach The data used are from the 2015 National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) and the methods are the ordinary least squares (OLS) for the Mean and the unconditional quantile regression (RIF-regression) for the distribution of gains of both genders, both associated...