This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women … Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories are … significantly more likely to be working, have lower tolerance of domestic violence, and are less likely to be victims of domestic …

varying results. In this paper, using country-level daily time series from Our World in Data, we undertake a global analysis …

Do global norms change? This paper argues that the global norms on the elimination of violence against women first … agreed upon in connection with the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women in 1993 have … Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995; the agreed conclusions of the 42nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women …

-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … labor market when young, and a negative trade shock induces women to substitute more to family activities than men. High … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and …