Sajeda Amin
Trends in poverty, working through changing roles of women in income generation, have been advanced as one explanation of changing fertility in Bangladesh. This paper examines women's work patterns in two rural villages in northern Bangladesh and finds little evidence of increasing workforce partici...
Carolyn Vogler, Michaela Brockmann, Richard D. Wiggins
Drawing on British data from two annual sweeps of the ISSP eight years apart in 1994 and 2002, for modules focusing on 'Family and Changing Gender Roles', this paper examines the extent to which changes in women's labour market participation, changing ideologies/discourses of gender and changing for...
Emily Oster
In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West: as high as 1.07 in China and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors (most notably Amartya Sen) have suggested that this imbalance reflects excess female mortality and have argued that as many ...
Agnes Quisumbing, Bénédicte de la Brière, Quisumbing, Agnes R., De La Briere, Benedicte
This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households.It contributes to the literature testing various household models by using measures of bargaining power that have been informed by ethnographic evid...
Leela Dube
<p>This is the first sustained effort to compare South and South-East Asia in respect of the situation of women. Arguing that kinship systems provide an important context in which gender relations are located, the study overlooks at three types of kinship system, found in their carious forms i...
Sylvie Dubuc, David Coleman
Male preference in many Asian cultures results in discriminatory practices against females, including neglect and infanticide. This preference, together with the availability of prenatal sex determination and sex‐selective abortion, has led to an increase in sex ratios at birth in China, India, and ...
Atika Qazi, Najmul Hasan, Olusola Abayomi‐Alli, Glenn Hardaker et al.
Even though information and communication technology (ICT) is essential for everyday life and has gained considerable attention in education and other sectors, it also carries individual differences in its use and relevant skills. This systematic review aims to examine the gender differences in ICT ...
Cecilie Thun
This article explores Norwegian female academics' experiences with academic motherhood in an organizational perspective. A main finding is that academia as an organization is greedy, uncertain, and has ‘blind spots' that reveal gender bias related to gender and parental status, especially mothers. B...
Lynn R. Offermann, Tessa E. Basford, Raluca Graebner, Salman Jaffer et al.
Workplace discrimination has grown more ambiguous, with interracial interactions often perceived differently by different people. The present study adds to the literature by examining a key individual difference variable in the perception of discrimination at work, namely individual color-blind atti...
Stéphanie Feiereisen, Amanda J. Broderick, Susan P. Douglas
Abstract The present article examines the predictive ability of gender identity congruity in explaining women's responses to advertising appeals. The contributions of the article are twofold: (1) to demonstrate whether advertisements that are congruent with female consumers' gender identities elicit...
D. A. Coleman, Sylvie Dubuc
This paper presents estimates of the level and trend of the fertility of different ethnic minorities in the UK from the 1960s up to 2006. The fertility estimates are derived primarily from the Labour Force Survey using the Own-Child method, with additional information from the General Household Surv...
Prashant Bharadwaj, Leah K. Lakdawala
ABSTRACT. This paper investigates whether boys receive preferential prenatal treatment in a setting where son preference is present. Using micro health data from India, we highlight sex-selective prena-tal investments as a new channel via which parents can practice discriminatory behavior. We find t...
Kristina Gyllensten, Stephen Palmer
Objective The aim of this review was to evaluate research relating to the role of gender in the level of workplace stress. A further aim was to review literature relating to stressors of particular relevance to working women. These stressors included, multiple roles, lack of career progress and disc...
Deborah Balk
(1997). Defying Gender Norms in Rural Bangladesh: A Social Demographic Analysis. Population Studies: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 153-172.
Geoffrey McNicoll, John Cleland, James F. Phillips, Sajeda Amin et al.