We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …

that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs … improved the relative status of women relative to both men before and after the transition to social feminism. Twentieth … century women's BMIs were higher than 19th century women relative to men with the rise of social feminism. The primary source …

choices using the example of child care – a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 …

We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …

Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend … of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before. In contrast, the amount of time men devote to housework …

This paper studies the origins and function of customs aimed at restricting women's sexuality, such as a particularly … invasive form of female genital cutting, restrictions on women's freedom of mobility, and norms about their sexual behavior … often extended periods of male absence from the settlement, implying larger payoffs to imposing restrictions on women …

-nurture interplay becomes stronger in more egalitarian environments that empower women, allowing genes to express themselves more fully …