Author:
Klaveren, Maarten van.
Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Descriptionxiii, 193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Introduction -- Introducing the Decisions for Life project -- Impact of the Decisions for Life project -- The Target Group -- The MDGs and Empowerment -- Discovering the Target Group -- The WageIndicator project: Labour Market Transparency -- Characteristics of the 14 Countries -- Human Development and Inequalities -- The 14 Countries in the 2000s -- Outline of This Book -- Demography, Health and Inequality: Basic Perspectives in the Life of Young Women -- Introduction -- Fertility -- Life Expectancy -- Girls and Boys: The Statistics -- Female Feticide -- Child Mortality -- The Pressure on Girls -- The Adolescent Fertility Rate -- Early Marriage and Early Motherhood -- Health Risks of Early Motherhood -- The HIV/AIDS Pandemic --HIV/AIDS in the 14 countries -- Effects of HIV/AIDS on Growth and Progress -- Prevention of HIV/AIDS in South Africa -- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) -- Orphanhood -- Mobility Out of Poverty? -- Education and Skills of Young Women -- Introduction: the MDG2+3 goals -- The Importance of Education -- Literacy -- Inequalities in Education -- Primary Education: Enrolment -- Primary Education: Country Overview -- Secondary Education: Enrollment -- Secondary Education: Country Overview -- Vocational Training -- Tertiary Education -- Female Skill Levels -- Employment of Young Women -- Introduction -- Labour Force Participation -- Absorption and Allocation -- Formal and Informal Employment -- Unemployment and Underemployment -- Child Labour -- Migration -- The Distribution of Women Workers over Industries -- The Female Share in Industries -- The Distribution of Women Workers Over Occupations -- The Female Share in Occupations -- The Eight Targeted Occupations -- Wages and Working Conditions of Young Women -- Introduction -- Wages: Industry Rankings -- Wages: The Gender Pay Gap -- Job Quality -- Working Hours -- Workplace Sexual Harassment and violence -- Combining Work and Family Life: a Legal Framework for Young Women -- Compliance, a Major Problem -- An Industry Outlook -- Introduction -- Industries: Agriculture -- Industries: Manufacturing -- Industries: Services -- Governance, Labour Relations, Union Organization, and The Internet -- Introduction -- The (Re) regulation Debate -- Empowering Women: Activities -- Women's Rights -- Union Organization -- Decisions for Life and the Position of Women in Unions -- Communication, New Media, Social Media -- Print Media, TV and Radio -- Mobile Phones -- Mobile Phones and the Gender Gap -- Mobile Internet and Broadband -- Internet Use -- Girls and Women on the Internet -- Perspectives for Using the Internet on Behalf of Girls and Young Women: the Case of the Statutory Minimum Wage -- Introduction -- Minimum Wages -- The Level of Minimum Wages -- Employment Effects -- Effects on Income Distribution -- Enforcement of the minimum Wage and The Role of the WageIndicator.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-187) and index.
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