women and reducing gender disparities, and by changing norms and attitudes which foster violence.- Interventions should …Morrison, Ellsberg, and Bott present an overview of gender-based violence (GBV) in Latin America, with special emphasis … consequences for women's health and well-being, ranging from fatal outcomes, such as homicide, suicide, and AIDS-related deaths, to …

The authors present an overview of gender-based violence (GBV) in Latin America, with special emphasis on good practice … the most common forms of GBV, and these are the types of GBV that they analyze. GBV has serious consequences for women …

women who have experienced gender-based violence, offer quality services to survivors, and reduce levels of gender … highlights emerging good practices. Much progress has recently been made in measuring gender-based violence, most notably through …

with salivary progesterone when controlling for gender, the use of hormonal contraceptives, and demographics. This also … ; Gender ; Competition ; Aggression ; Dominance ; Risk-taking ; Endocrinological economics …

may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor … force. After taking into account gender specific selection effects and the effects of the programs on pregnancies, gender …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … investments that are efficient. Given that the gender wage gap narrows with the level of education, women's labor-market return …

) suggested that hepatitis B could explain a large share { approximately 50% { of Asia's \missing women". Subsequent work has … ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed …