Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of social media (SM) on the creation of
digital entrepreneurship by female (irrespective of age) and youth male (aged 18–29 years) …

Does international return migration transfer gender norms? Focusing on Jordan, an Arab
country where gender inequality and emigration rates are high, this paper exploits unique …

Purpose The majority of poor women in Africa live in rural areas, and investigating their
empowerment status and factors influencing their empowerment is therefore a tool for …

Accepted: 17 August 2020 This study is an attempt to construct a women empowerment
index using multi-dimensional factors in the context of demographic and socio-economic …

Sixty percent of Egypt's population lives in rural areas (Chapter 1). In a young country
overall, Egypt's rural population is even younger than the urban popula-tion, making …

A superação de desigualdades de gênero em uma sociedade com fortes bases patriarcais,
como a brasileira, tem como um de seus elementos centrais o empoderamento feminino …

Abstract Women in Middle Eastern and North African countries continue to report low levels
of agency, despite their increasing educational attainment and declining fertility rates. We …

Does international return migration transfer gender norms? Focusing on Jordan, an Arab
country where discrimination against women and emigration rates are high, this paper …

Transition to non-employment is prevalent for women in the Egyptian labor market,
particularly those working in the private sector. This paper analyzes women's labor market …

This paper examines the contextual and community-level determinants of multidimensional
women's empowerment in Egypt, while accounting for the usual individual and household …