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Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women in their first union. Conditional means for women's nutritional status are compared by marital status across 20 countries. Overall, the results indicate significantly lower nutritional status for Africa's widows and divorcees between ages 15 and 49. With some exceptions, this is found to be the case with country and household fixed effects and controls for HIV status. However, looking at country-specific associations underlines that disadvantage is by no means universal.

Divorcees --- Gender --- Industry --- Marital Dissolution --- Nutrition --- Science and Technology Development --- Technology Industry --- Technology Innovation --- Welfare --- Widows

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Unmarried Lulu Bett can't question her role as chief cook and housekeeper in her married sister's home, but when a peripatetic brother-in-law comes to visit, he playfully proposes marriage. Lulu accepts, and the marriage soon reveals its underside, but not before she has tasted freedom.

Femmes célibataires --- Employées de maison --- Femmes divorcées --- Réalisation de soi --- Roman de moeurs --- Middle West (États-Unis)

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Get a fresh perspective on how older women adapt to life without a spouse!

Widows and Divorcees in Later Life: On Their Own Again examines new perspectives on the problems older women face adjusting to life without a spouse. The book examines the transition from the togetherness of marriage to the solitude of being suddenly single, exploring how older widows and divorcees adapt. A multidisciplinary panel of practitioners, researchers, and academics addresses the challenges facing elderly women after a divorce or the death of a spouse, including issues of physical and psychological well

Widows --- Divorced women --- Older women --- Divorcees --- Ex-wives --- Former wives --- -Divorced women --- -Older women --- -Aged women --- Displaced homemakers --- Divorced people --- Single women --- Marital status --- Women

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Migration, internal and external, continues to be a dominant livelihood strategy for households in Lesotho, with almost half (43 percent) of households reporting at least one member living away. The past decade has seen a sharp increase in female migration, due to a halt in new hires of Basotho men in South African mines and a concomitant expansion of jobs primarily for women in the export garment sector in Maseru and Maputsoe. This study analyzes female migration using three waves of the Demographic and Health Survey (2004, 2009, and 2014) as well as primary data collected by the research team in March-April 2015. The findings indicate that female migration in Lesotho is primarily driven by economic "push" (rather than "pull") factors, often due to shocks to the household, such as job loss, death, or bad crops. Migrants are often seen as "strugglers" and their households of origin are just as poor as rural households with no migrants. Moreover, the study finds conclusive evidence that women's employment in sectors dominated by migrants is strongly correlated with HIV/AIDS: 55 percent of women working in garment factories and 38 percent of domestic workers are HIV positive, as opposed to the national average of 30 percent. These findings point to three policy recommendations to support female migrants and their families: (i) lower the barriers to secondary education in rural areas, (ii) diversify and expand employment opportunities for men and women, and (iii) provide HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services to garment factory workers as well as migrants working in the informal sector.

Divorcees --- Economics & Gender --- Gender --- Gender & Poverty --- Gender and Economic Policy --- Gender and Economics --- Industry --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Marital Dissolution --- Nutrition --- Science and Technology Development --- Technology Industry --- Technology Innovation --- Welfare --- Widows

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Family law. Inheritance law --- Sociology of law --- Custody of children --- Joint custody of children --- Divorced fathers --- Divorced mothers --- Feminism --- Garde des enfants (Droit) --- Garde conjointe des enfants --- Pères divorcés --- Mères divorcées --- Féminisme --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Statut légal --- Custody of children. --- Feminism. --- Joint custody of children. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Pères divorcés --- Mères divorcées --- Féminisme --- Statut légal