Women and Informality: A Global Picture, the Global Movement

By M. Chen. 2001

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Financial Inclusion in Africa (2015, background): “For example, existing data indicates that the informal sector accounts for over 95 percent of women workers outside agriculture in Benin, Chad and Mali (Chen, 2001).”
Innovation in informal settings: reflections and proposals for a research agenda (2014, background): “Informal workers certainly participate heavily in certain export industries, as with homeworkers and the textile industry, for example (Chen 2001).”
Informal Work in Latin America: Competing Perspectives and Recent Debates (2009, background): “In the case study from Mérida, rates of self-employment (and, by extension, informal work) are considerably higher because much home-based work is not counted and, as a consequence, government statistics tend to underestimate informal employment, particularly among women (Chen 2001).”
Gender, Entrepreneurship, and the Formal–Informal Dilemma: Evidence from Indonesia (2015, background): “Does gender shape an entrepreneur’s preference about formality? Are female entrepreneurs more likely to prefer the formal sector or the informal sector? Much of the extant research finds that women prefer the informal sector because it provides greater flexibility in terms of working hours, pace of ”