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 …

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 …

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

trade facilitation has serious implications not just for women's empowerment but also for productivity and growth potential … the challenges and impediments faced by women in engaging in cross-border trade, with particular emphasis on demonstrating …

communities are usually more affected, especially in low-income countries. Among them, women but particularly indigenous groups in … indigenous women. Our results show that overall indigenous women are the group most severely affected by droughts, decreasing …

Every day, three women are murdered in the United States by a current or former partner. Yet policy action to prevent … crimes against women in the developing world. This paper investigates whether the election of a female politician reduces the …

is observed despite working women’s education levels increasingly exceeding those of working men and significant … segregated labor markets. Educational segregation is rising in all countries at the university level in favor of women. In all … countries, over 22 percent of employed younger women obtain university education compared to a stagnant to decreasing share of …

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

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 …