This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate … explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against gender equality policy change, with a particular focus on women …'s movements. The paper provides insights on how women interact with other actors and how they articulate their claims to …

Legalization of abortion in the 1970s represents a major cultural change: it gives women a higher degree of freedom to … analyzed through its direct consequences on fertility and fertility technology, primarily on women actually experiencing an … women that face abortion as an actual opportunity, without necessarily experiencing one. I focus on the indirect effect of …

factors as the strength of women's movements and the forms of opposition to which their policy demands gives rise. Variables … such as the nature of the state or the economy, are also seen strongly to influence whether women mobilize to make claims … successes. The article argues that understanding variation in the outcomes achieved by women's rights advocates requires close …

measures, negative attitudes towards immigrants and networking, which may influence natives and immigrants differently. The … paper considers, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of negative attitudes and networking taking into account … evidence that greater negative attitudes increase incentives for males to acquire education and that networking also increases …

living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace …