Gender inequality and emigration: Push factor or selection process?

Son Preference, Sex Selection and Gender Inequality in India

In the backdrop of the debate on missing women (Oster, 2005), this paper empirically tests for two competing explanations of the increasing sex ratio at birth (SRB) in India: prevalence of hepatitis B and human intervention in the form of sex selective abortion or female infanticide. Estimating a simple model of male-preferring stopping rule using the method of maximum likelihood with data from...

gender inequality and hiv prevalence

introduction: controversy over the relationship of gender inequality with health and its dimensions is not new concept for many years researchers have been discussing whether inequality could determine different levels of health in men and women. this paper examined the linkage between gender inequality in four key domains, economy, education, politics, and health and prevalence of hiv.   metho...

Poverty and Gender Inequality

Egalitarianism and Gender Inequality

egalitarian institutional reforms is a distinctive feature of modernity and postmodernity. This development, which dates at least to the Enlightenment, intensified throughout the twentieth century as formal legal rights were extended to previously excluded groups(e.g., women); wide-reaching institutional reforms were implemented to equalize life chances (e.g., bureaucratic personnel policies) a...

Gender Inequality and Trade

The paper empirically explores the international linkages between gender inequality and trade flows of a sample of 92 developed and developing countries. The focus is on comparative advantage in labour-intensive manufactured goods. The results indicate that gender wage inequality is positively associated with comparative advantage in labourintensive goods, that is, countries with a larger gende...