Closing the gender gap in Bangladesh: inequality in education, employment and earnings

Closing the Gender Gap in Bangladesh : Inequality in Education , Employment and Earnings

Assesses the status of women in Bangladesh by analysing the dynamics of female participation in labour force and education as well as gender earnings differentials at the macro level. The study finds evidence of growing commercialisation of women’s work in Bangladesh. Although the bulk of the female labour force is engaged in self-employment activities in the rural area or in low-skilled textil...

Monthly Labor Review @bullet Women's Employment Earnings Education and Women's Employment in the United States, Women's Employment, Education, and the Gender Gap in 17 Countries

One commonsense view of women’s employment is that working-class women have always been more likely to work for pay than other women because of their families’ need for their paycheck. But in fact, recent evidence shows higher levels of employment for highly educated women than for the less educated, despite the fact that well-educated women typically have higher earning husbands. This article ...

Closing the Gender Gap

the survey of the virtual higher education in iran and the ways of its development and improvement

این پژوهش با هدف "بررسی وضعیت موجود آموزش عالی مجازی در ایران و راههای توسعه و ارتقای آن " و با روش توصیفی-تحلیلی و پیمایشی صورت پذیرفته است. بررسی اسنادو مدارک موجود در زمینه آموزش مجازی نشان داد تعداد دانشجویان و مقاطع تحصیلی و رشته محل های دوره های الکترونیکی چندان مطلوب نبوده و از نظر کیفی نیز وضعیت شاخص خدمات آموزشی اساتید و وضعیت شبکه اینترنت در محیط آموزش مجازی نامطلوب است.

Changing norms about gender inequality in education: Evidence from Bangladesh

BACKGROUND While norms are important for educational attainment, especially in the developing world, there are relatively few studies on this topic. This paper, which explores attitudes toward gender equality in education among Bangladeshis, should therefore be of interest to both academics and policymakers. OBJECTIVE In this paper, we seek to identify which factors affect the norms regarding t...