provide new evidence on how women suffrage has affected government spending. Using data from the last country in Europe to … adopt suffrage, Switzerland, we demonstrate two main results. First, women suffrage has changed the scope of government much … more than its size. Women are more likely to support expenditures for public goods like environment and public transport …

paper illustrates how the language used to describe violence against women may act to minimise these acts and the dominant … argue that there is an inherent dilemma in engaging with legal constructs which continue to negate women’s understandings of …

, empirical evidence indicates consistent overrepresentation of women, including many single mothers, among payday loan borrowers …. This takes a toll not only on these women and their families, but also on society as a whole. Indeed, context matters in … payday lending debates. It is thus time to think creatively and consider contextualized programs that aim to increase women …

discernible impact upon property and economic crime. In probing mechanisms we argue that men are more prone to crime than women …This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … district level administrative crime data by category to age- specific sex ratios in census data across four decades and, to …

egregious crime. The consequences of IPV are profound and affect all members of the household, family members near and far, and …

This article compares the background, motivation, pathways and prison experiences of Arab/Palestinian women who were … also interviewed and court and prison files examined to validate the women's background and criminal history. Although both … groups transgressed gender expectations by venturing into male-dominated worlds (crime and terrorism), the data point to …

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 …