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 …

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 …

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

, albeit only for women. Women in a better than normal mood tend to exhibit mood-congruent behavior, i.e. they weight … criterion. Only a negligible number of women do so. …

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 …