paper illustrates how the language used to describe violence against women may act to minimise these acts and the dominant … perception in the context of the criminal justice system. In particular, we consider the language of domestic violence and sexual … conversational style and female violence victims’ genderlect may collide to produce evidentiary issues and a credibility gap. We …

This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonialism on several drivers of women empowerment including education, fertility, marital age, gender norms, etc. While our … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were …

In recent decades, women's participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most countries and is … be occurring in the criminal world, though many more men than women still engage in criminal activity. Technological … progress and social norms have freed women from the home, increasing their participation in both the labor market and the crime …

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 …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …