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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Female Employment"”.
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Changing patterns of female employment in rural England, c. 1790-1890
… and pamphlet literature. The general pattern of female employment emanating from this analysis suggests a continuity and in some sectors, an increase in rural women’s work opportunities and wages until the 1840s. Thereafter, the sense of decline in women’s economic participation is shown to …
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A női munkavállalás hatása a napi időfelhasználásra = The effect of female employment on time use
… the most important dependencies between women’s employment and daily time use within the 1999-2000 and 2009-2010 time periods. Through the analysis of time use we can capture social-economic changes, which evolve over a longer period of time therefore their trends can be formulated within such …
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The Ties That Do Not Bind: Social Capital, Minority Female Representation, and Social Inequality in the United States
… public health research, I argue that (minority) female representation is critical to reducing health disparity. In the first essay, "All Women Not Affected Equally: Social Capital and Minority Female Representation in American States", I study how various measures of social capital effect the …
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What are the effects of Globalization on Economic Growth and Inequality?: An empirical global study
… facilities for, technology, general health, employment (with emphasis to female employment) and health of new-borns. The research design uses panel vector-autoregression, Error-Correction, Granger Causality and Impulse Response modelling to capture findings for 35 low-middle- and low-income …
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Female Participation in the Informal Sector in Brazil in 1996 and in 2005
… in the 1990s have changed the organization of female employment in the country. In this study, I examine the participation of women in the informal sector in Brazil in 1996 and 2005. Using micro-level data from the Brazilian Monthly Employment Survey, I find Brazilian female workers became …
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Essays on Labor and Development Economics
… regions that pass Islamic regulations had lower female employment rates prior to passing the regulations, but there is no additional negative effect arising from these regulations. I also find that female educational attainment increases significantly in regions that pass mandatory tithing …
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Why EU Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Fail in Italy: A Feminist Legal Analysis
… Parental Leave Directive (96/34/EC), the female employment rate in Italy is still ranked the third lowest in the European Union (EU) and Italian women continue to do twice as much household work as Italian men. Parents, especially women, struggle to find a balance between professional work …
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Three Essays in Development Economics
… that address, respectively, spousal violence and female employment in Colombia, inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia, and welfare of rural Peruvian households. The evidence presented in the first essay, ”Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Employment: Evidence from Colombia,” …
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Work, class and gender in Canadian fiction, 1890s-1920s
… understanding of gender economies surrounding female labour. I also interrogate how far popular literature of the period explored and represented these new opportunities, and to what extent novelists retained a traditional emphasis on the primary role of women as wives and mothers. More …
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Female labour force participation amidst the reestablishment of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan 2021-2023
Afghanistan experienced a significant decline in female labour force participation (FLFP) from 17% in 2021 to 6% in 2022, concurrently with re-establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) in August 2021. Thus, this study aims to investigate the factors that could have contributed to …
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Gendered work: Women's paid labor in Barre, Vermont and Trinidad, Colorado, 1880--1918
… in aggregate data provided an overall picture of female employment in each community. Personal stories of the smaller subset of women provided a clearer look into their lives. By comparing working women in two communities in the East and West, this study provides a baseline for examining how two …
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Female labour market adjustment processes in the UK coalfields.
… study focuses on the processes occurring in the female labour markets of coalfield areas in Great Britain. During the 1980s and 1990s these areas experienced a major loss of male employment as a result of the decline of the coal industry. The research looks at how female employment in these areas …
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Embroidery, business enterprise and philanthropic ventures in Nineteenth Century Britain
… and their relationship to their predominantly female workforce. The theme of business enterprise is the conduit which runs throughout, yet it is not intended as an economic history, rather business history as social history.</p> <p>The growth and development of 'Art Embroidery' in Britain circa …
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Gender Differences in Earnings and Occupational Attainment in Europe
Despite significant increases in female labour market participation and educational achievement in the EU in recent decades, women still trail men in terms of employment rates, earnings and occupational attainment. This thesis is about the interplay between the characteristics of individuals …
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The Effect of Professional Development Training for Secondary Mathematics Teachers Concerning Nontraditional Employment Roles for Females
… teachers' sex-egalitarian attitudes towards female employment. Information on the video presented seven jobs that provide opportunities for female students in the science, engineering, and technology fields that are considered nontraditional jobs for females. Subjects completed 19 Employment …
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Unclaimed flowers and blossoms protected by Thorns: never-married women in the United States, 1880-1930.
… century concerns about race, ethnicity, female employment, and class. The number of never-married women in the United States grew between 1880 and 1920 as a result of the new employment opportunities that appeared in the decades following the Civil War. U.S. census data reveals that …
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The central committee on women's training and employment : tackling the servant problem, 1914 - 1945
… of the twentieth century. The largest sector of female employment, paradoxically there was a perceived servant problem. Defined as a shortage of female applicants, it generated much debate both within and outside Parliament. One potential answer was training unemployed women to fill domestic …
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A cross-national comparative study of the roles of men in contemporary France and Britain
… child care within the family, parental roles, female employment, role reversal, gender stereotyping and changes towards a new image of masculinity in society. Particular consideration is given to differences in governmental attitudes in France and Britain towards the introduction of family …
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Contextualising diversity management: challenging the effectiveness of the business case
… that the structural and cultural barriers to female employment in the male-dominated construction sector impact the participation of other disadvantaged groups. They also discuss the impact of social class and the effectiveness of inclusion strategies for disabled workers, as well as the …
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