More women than ever before are being appointed cabinet ministers, yet academic scholarship is making slow progress when it comes to understanding and explaining how and why women reach the executive branch of government. Gender and politics scholarship continues to rely on theories developed to...

Governmental interventions to promote gender equality – for example to encourage female participation in the formal economy and male engagement with the informal unpaid economy of care - are costly. However, there has been little examination in feminist analyses of policy reform of the...

Welfare states in advanced, industrial countries are undergoing a significant process of reconfiguration that has wide-ranging implications for women. Yet, academic work on women and the welfare state tells us little about women's capacity to shape the contours of the emerging regimes. The...