process has been the creation in 2010 of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women …, which came into operation on January 1, 2011. UN Women incorporates four existing parts of the UN system dealing with women … and has been styled as the new UN “gender architecture.” In this article we consider the implications of this new …

that information media fuels the adjustment of meaning given to significant events in contemporary society. A heightened …

. Celebrity capital, or broadly recognizability, is conceptualized as accumulated media visibility that results from recurrent … media representations. In that sense, it is a substantial kind of capital and not a subset or special category of social or …

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …

Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly … cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …