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The Relationship between Women's Education with Women's Labor Participation and National Income: A Research on G20 Countries
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Karakütük, Kasim; Ozbal, Ece Ozdogan – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of this research is to reveal the relationship between women's education, women's labor force participation and national income in G20 countries. The relationships between women's education, women's labor force participation and national income were analyzed by the panel data analysis method for the G20 countries for the period…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Labor Force, Employed Women, Income
How Does Access to Early Childhood Services Affect the Participation of Women in the Labour Market? Education Indicators in Focus. No. 59
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OECD Publishing, 2018
While the benefits of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services to better learning are now widely acknowledged, a widespread and accessible provision for these services also helps support gender equality in the workforce. In particular, the availability, intensity, reliability and affordability of ECEC play an important role in engaging…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Early Childhood Education, Womens Studies, Mothers
The Impact of Learning on Women's Labour Market Transitions
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Haasler, Simone R. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2014
Women play an increasingly important role in the labour market and as wage earners. Moreover, in many countries, young women have outperformed men in terms of educational attainment and qualification. Still, women's human capital investment does not pay off as it does for men as they are still significantly disadvantaged on the labour market.…
Descriptors: Females, Labor Market, Employed Women, Human Capital
Still a Perfect Model? The Gender Impact of Vocational Training in Germany
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Haasler, Simone R.; Gottschall, Karin – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2015
Reconstructing the parallel structure of "dual" and "school-based" vocational routes reveals the close connection between the German vocational training system and the segmentation of the labour market by gender. The example of jobs in childcare and pre-primary education shows that the legacy of semi-professionalism in these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Models, Vocational Education
Childlessness and Parenthood in Two Centuries: Different Roads--Different Maps?
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Dykstra, Pearl A.; Hagestad, Gunhild O. – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
The article focuses on findings that were replicated across several countries and considers their relevance for future older adults. Key findings are that (a) childlessness makes more of a difference in men's than in women's lives, (b) never-married women are a childless category with particularly favorable characteristics, and (c) childless…
Descriptors: Childlessness, Parents, Males, Females
Sexual Harassment in a Residential Occupation: The Experiences of Women Seafarers
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Thomas, Michelle A – Health Education Journal, 2006
Objective: This paper reports women seafarers' experiences of sexual harassment. Design: Data reported in this paper were collected as part of a larger study exploring company policies and practices relating to women seafarers and the experiences of women seafarers themselves. Setting: Data reported here was collected with women from seven…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Females, Focus Groups, Semiskilled Workers