members and executives in Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC). Women are as under-represented in LAC as in the United … States, but much less so in the Caribbean. It is then estimated whether companies with women board members are more likely to … appoint women executives. This is the case in LAC, but the results are driven strongly by Caribbean companies. The paper …

Violence has a striking gender pattern. Men are more likely to be attacked by a stranger, while women experience … violence mostly from their partners. This paper estimates the costs of violence against women in terms of intangible outcomes …, such as women’s reproductive health, labor supply, and the welfare of their children. The study uses a sample of nearly 83 …

Violence against women (VAW) is only beginning to be recognized as a major societal problem within and across Asia …. This is evidenced by the high level of self-reporting by men and women of sexual violence and domestic violence in recent … particularly via the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the pressure exerted …

information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of …