The focus of this study was to examine how Instagram can affect the empowerment of Iranian women by providing a platform for them to run their home-based businesses (HBBs). The data were collected through sixteen semi-structured interviews with Iranian women who ran their HBBs on Instagram, and Kabeer's empowerment framework was applied to the analysis. The results show that women's empowerment can be improved by running an HBB on Instagram. Participants in this study could achieve greater agency, facilitate access to resources, and improve their achievements by running their HBBs on Instagram. However, all the barriers to women's empowerment could not be overcome by using Instagram.

Women’s representation on corporate boards has recently drawn increasing attention. This study aims to investigate the moderator role of females on board of directors on the relationship between earnings quality (EQ) and stock price informativeness. This research uses secondary data obtained from the Sahra database that span 158 active firms on the Tehran Stock Exchange from 2017 to 2021. Findings indicated that the presence of female directors on the board had a favorable impact on the correlation between EQ and pricing informativeness. That is, firms with more female board members have a greater association between EQ and pricing informativeness. The practical application of this research relates to female CEOs’ monitoring roles, thereby enhancing the quality of financial reporting.

In Slovakia, the evidence reports women underrepresentation in local politics. In this paper, the spatial insight to the numeric women representation in local governments at the position of the mayor (elected local authority) in Slovakia in recent 20 years is given. The aim of the paper is to identify the areas, where the representation of women mayors is the most evident and how it evolves in time. For better visibility of results on the map, local data for 2,924 local governments (municipalities) are aggregated to the district level (79 districts at LAU1) and the shares of women mayors on all mayors in a district are displayed for five election periods since 2002. Results confirm the increasing trend of women representation in local governments. Beside it, they unveil that the increase of the portion of women mayors is observed firstly in the south – center part and edge north-eastern part of Slovakia. These areas are characterized by high fragmentation of residential structure, low GDP per capita and higher ethnolinguistic fragmentation. Then the increase of women representation in local governments subsequently continued in south-eastern and south-western part of Slovakia.

Working in the software development industry in the modern world cannot be imagined without integration with some code versioning platform. In addition to allowing copies of the code to be kept, these platforms provide the ability to control changes that occur in the code itself, so at any time it can be determined which member of the development team made the change. The aim of this paper is to determine the possibilities of using code versioning platforms in education, i.e. conducting teaching in the field of software development at faculties, through the analysis of data generated on one of these platforms. In order to gain insight into the dynamics of software solution development, data analysis from the GitHub platform was performed using the GitHub REST API on the example of a public GitHub organization. The results of the analysis indicate that the data generated on these platforms can be used to better understand the learning process and monitor the dynamics of project work. In this way, lecturers have a better insight into the dynamics of the development of a given software solution. It is possible to follow iteratively how much and in what way each team member contributed to the solution through the analysis of different groups of data and thus better understand the state of individual activities, but also the state of the entire project.

Transformational leadership plays an important role in the sustainable development of Islamic boarding schools. It has brought a positive and constructive influence on modern Islamic boarding schools. This study aims to analyze, describe and discover in detail Nyai's transformational leadership and its impact on Roudlotun Nasyiin Islamic Boarding School in Mojokerto. Use the descriptive characterization of the case study as a research method. Data is collected through observations, in-depth interviews and documents. Data analysis is done through data reduction process, data service and drawing conclusions. Use credibility, transferability, reliability and confirmability to test the data to verify its validity. The results showed that Nyai’s transformational leadership includes the effects of idealized internalization, that is, leaders have big ideas, innovations, beliefs, strong intentions, consistency, high commitment, integrity, an all-out attitude, and motivation Internalization of sexual motivations (such as vision and imagination). Tasks, transformation and maintenance, become role models, provide solutions, etc. The internalization of personal considerations includes enthusiastic attitudes, caring, self-realization, giving support, efforts in performance and growth, attention to needs and sharing experiences. Last but not least, the internalization of intellectual stimulation. According to the results, it can be concluded that transformational leadership can be divided into three forms: psychological effects, social effects and cultural effects.

The importance of education and the need for women’s education, in particular, is advocated worldwide. However, there are still impediments to the realisation of women’s right to education in Nigeria. It is through education that women acquire the desire and nature for the attainment of values, competence, skills, attitudes and knowledge. This paper highlights the need for serious consideration to be afforded to adult education generally in addition to adult literacy specifically in a bid to aid women in achieving their right to education. As such, the concept of adult and non-formal education being a basis aimed at the abolition of illiteracy amidst women in Nigeria was discussed.

In this exploratory research, we examined the socio-economic aspects of working from home for men and women in Serbia, their psychosocial adjustment to that work, and especially the differences among Serbian freelancers by gender. In an electronic survey participated 180 women and 228 men. According to socio-demographic variables, it was determined that women are significantly younger, that they work significantly shorter at home, and that there are significantly fewer of them in predominantly "male" occupations: IT sector, construction, and transport. According to several economic variables, no statistically significant differences were found by gender, except that women are significantly more likely to be guided by a good business idea and higher earnings when starting a business at home, and more often consult a psychologist when in crisis. No statistically significant differences were found in terms of psychosocial adjustment, but also among men and women - freelancers, with some minor exceptions. Based on the analysis of the content of three types of questionnaires, the social profiles of women and men working at (from) home are described. In the final part of the study, unexpectedly similar research results by gender were elaborated in detail.

Provision of gender equality in the Azerbaijani society and strengthening women’s participation in governance, promoting women as entrepreneurial entities and developing their socio-economic activities are among topical issues. Provided the mentioned issues are settled in correspondence with democratic values​​, and transparency is accomplished in the country, women would be enabled to participate in governance. Within the framework of the study, the opportunity to find a place for women to suit their abilities, as equal members of the society, was explored. Moreover, role of women in entrepreneurial activity in the society have been studied, relationships between women in the postindustrial society, the state policy towards women, the specificity of the spherical factors preventing the development of women entrepreneurship, and the causes of gender problem have been analyzed. Propositions concerning the gender equality at business activity and women entrepreneurs in the country have been put forward as the scientific novelty of research.

The purpose of the current study was to explore the conditions of empowerment among women entrepreneurs in the beauty salon sector in Sri Lanka by shedding light on the specific challenges faced by women when initiating and developing an enterprise. Focus group discussions were used to create a colloborative platform for businesswomen to meet and exchange experiences on being entrepreneurial women. Twelve women entrepreneurs who own beauty salons in the outskirts of the capital city of Sri Lanka participated in the workshop. Sen's capability approach and Kabeer's empowerment framework was used to interpret the findings. The women in the study face many challenges such as difficulties in maintaining a healthy ork-life balance, ouble burden and tiresome multi-tasking. Research suggests that women's choice to become an entrepreneur enables them to achieve their practical and strategic gender needs. Nevertheless, too much focus on fulfilling practical gender needs limits the ability of women to fulfil their strategic gender needs. However, entrepreneurial agency has changed their status through improving the wellbeing of women, increasing the actual economic contribution, strengthning the economic security, through the ability to exercise the purchasing power to invest on children, sense of self-worth, value within their families and family welfare. The study will increase our understanding of women and their family ties and the challenges women face in multiple roles they play in a developing context like Sri Lanka.

The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 had a great impact on the business activities of the women entrepreneurs. Pandemic protection measures taken to reduce health risks as well as the introduction of restrictive measures have influenced the changes in the scope, manner and organization of business in most small and medium enterprises, including those (co) owned and managed by women. Considering that the previous researches showed that women bore the greatest burden of this crisis, the aim of the study was to gain insight into the effects of the pandemic on women's businesses as well as balancing between business and family responsibilities of women entrepreneurs in the changed circumstances. The research was conducted through an online survey on a sample of 93 respondents. The results showed that 76% of women-owned companies were negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and that women replaced the lack of hours spent at work with work at home and care of family members.