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 …

Colombian manufacturing firms, by extending a CDM model to include women’s participation in science, technology and innovation … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … women in STI. The paper addresses the endogeneity concerns with a Tobit specification of the firm’s decision to employ women …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

municipalities with women councilors devote more resources to social investments. In particular, women politicians prioritize …