this respect in the transport sector. In both developed and developing countries, our societies are gendered in that women … and men play different roles, notably because household chores and children are mainly the preserve of women, which …

International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the …This paper critically examines the role that transnational women’s NGOs played in the 1990s in the creation and … complex political dynamics in which transnational women’s NGOs find themselves, as they manoeuvre within a globalizing yet …

Women are underrepresented at all levels of the global financial system, from depositors and borrowers to bank board … members and regulators. A new study at the IMF finds that greater inclusion of women as users, providers, and regulators of … policy. New evidence suggests that greater access for women to and use of accounts for financial transactions, savings, and …

It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from … reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy-along with the …

-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women …'s Ladder - women are either similar to or 'happier' than men. This finding is insensitive to which controls are included and …. This is the true paradox - morbidity doesn't match mortality by gender. Women say they are less cheerful and calm, more …

household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives …, which in turn produce systematic variation in expectations. Using unique data on the contributions of men and women to …

underrepresentation of women in science more salient. Using machine learning methods, we leverage the diversity of role model profiles to …