Prior research on fundamentalist religious movements has focused attention on the
complicated relationship among gender, family, and religion. Using data from a nationally …

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 …

As female labor force participation increases globally, the relationship between maternal
employment and children's development remains unclear. Using data from the India Human …

It is almost impossible to “prove” discrimination in the labor market, yet most would
acknowledge that it exists and some would argue that the job you get and/or how much you …

In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a state of crisis. Each
successive Human Development Report (HDR) and the pervasive global failure to achieve …

Despite a remarkable increase in girls' educational enrolment and a significant decline in
fertility over the last few decades, India witnessed a substantial decline in women's labour …

In India, social prejudices against women are culturally entrenched, and women carry an
unfair and disproportionate burden of unpaid work, often reduced to “unproductive labor” …

Muslim concentration varies over the districts of West Bengal, which leads to unequal socio-
economic development. The dearth of research on the relationship between Muslim …

Employment status is an indicator of the economic condition of the population. Employment
also has some non-economic advantages, such as increasing an individual's status and …

The relationship between women and the labour market is not straightforward; instead, it is
much more complex, and involves a lot of invisible forces operating and hence influencing …