This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...

Why are gender wage gaps lower in northern than in southern states of India, despite comparable (and in some respects higher) measures of gender equality in the south? In addressing this question, I develop a model of social norms that stigmatize women’s wage work and generate lower rates of...