This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …

Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Development of Latin America was held (Havana, 1977), as an intergovernmental platform for the region following the World … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of …

women, and to identifying the nature and forms of violence against women prevailing in the society. The study was delimited … to the rural areas of Tehsil Ahmadpur East of district Bahawalpur. The population of the study consisted of married women … presented in graphical form. The study concluded that violence against women exists in different forms including pushing and …