With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyses the gendered economic impacts of the crisis. The volume, from an international set of contributors, argues that gender-differentiated economic roles and responsibilities within households and markets...

Little attention has been paid to the monitoring tools of women's socio-economic rights (SER). Can the established monitoring tools used by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) be reformed to detect all the ways women's SER are undermined or is it more conceptually sound...

Results of the Kerala Model boasts literacy rates higher than the national average, including large public expenditures that have improved the social status of women in Kerala. Kerala’s source of economic growth can mainly be attributed to the high remittances owing to the large-scale...