enactment of laws that increase women's access and control of productive resources. …

Measuring the output of men and women in science and technology has previously been mostly restricted to case studies … investigation reveal substantial differences across coun-tries in terms of women's relative contribution1 to science and technology … also examine trends over time, showing that the data on women's share of publications - unlike the results for patents …

Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), advocating the multiple dimensions of women's rights, affects the level of women's rights in a … women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … (ii) whether the effects are most pronounced in the dimension of women's social rights, a special focus of the Convention …

changes in access to natural resources have differing effects on men and women and on indigenous and non-indigenous peoples … natural resource management. It examines the position of indigenous women in ‘women and environment’ literature and the aspect … specifically dealing with indigenous women’s use and knowledge of natural resources, and the relationship between modernization …

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the … fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of … women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to women’s lower average levels of optimism and self-confidence, and higher …

Our study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's and feminized … estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the ratio of women's to men's poverty with two different poverty measures. We … feminization of poverty is nearly universal across affluent Western democracies 1969-2000. Second, we show that women's, men's and …

recent papers: women are sensitive to the design and context of the experiment in ways that men are not. In addition, we go …

The article analyses the question whether women and men differ in their tastes for location factors. The question is …