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progress and social norms have freed women from the home, increasing their participation in both the labor market and the crime … whether the policy prescriptions to reduce crime should differ for women. …In recent decades, women's participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most countries and is …
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’ bearing scant relation to the ‘crime’ of choosing a violent man as a partner: this results in the woman being “thrice punished …-traumatic stress occasioned by violence in the relationship, in a context in which battered women face serious barriers to obtaining a … knowledge about male violence against women and gender bias in the law, and the relative unawareness of the reality of domestic …
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and piecemeal way in which suffrage was eventually won by women in European countries. Furthermore, it identifies the main … factors accounting for women's earlier or later achievement of suffrage in different European nations and, exploring the … connection between women's access to voting rights and to civil and social rights, it retells a story of women's citizenship …
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This article explores and analyses the judicial treatment of victim consent in cases of trafficking in persons in Australia. Using available case law, this article examines how victim consent has been dealt with in the prosecution and sentencing of trafficking offenders, and how discussions of...
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We investigate the effect of Islamist terrorist activity on women's economic, political and legal position in society … groups is associated with lower levels of women's empowerment and rights. Various instrumental-variable approaches yield the … same conclusion, suggesting that the adverse effect of Islamist terrorism on women' rights is causal. Further emphasizing …
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, 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 …
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century, women’s voices continue to be muted and domestic violence continues to be invisible, to some extent, in the eyes of … the law. This paper uses the 1881 autobiography of Eliza Davies and the voices of contemporary women who speak out about …
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