A new analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) reveals that, after correcting for job tenure requirements imposed by employers, the estimated number of employees who can access paid sick days decreases noticeably.
Wider Opportunities for Women compared working-age adults’ household incomes to The Basic Economic Security Tables (BEST) for the United States, a measure of the basic needs and assets workers require for economic security.
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IWPR’s research on the Status of Women in the Middle East and North Africa, gender segregation in the workforce, the status of women in the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.
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by Robert Drago, Ph.D. Education, and particularly higher education, provides [...]
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In addition to gathering information about women’s and men’s economic, social and political status, the SWMENA survey investigated the extent to which women in Yemen had access to, or the opportunity to make use of, formal health care.
This topic brief presents the main findings from the SWMENA survey in Yemen on paid work and employment
