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This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …
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We study the impact of electoral gender quotas in post-war Burundi and Rwanda on women's political representation. First, we look at descriptive representation by studying the number of female representatives and the prestige of their positions in the legislative and executive branches of...
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We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from … incidence of domestic violence across areas with different historical livelihoods in modern-day Tanzania, where we observe a … large degree of spatial variation in both attitudes and actions of violence against women. Using rich individual survey and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152073
States' governance of gender is not unidirectional. In addition to 'stagnation' and 'progress', there can be an active reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the following questions: What are the likely causes of...
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