The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are … particularly pronounced in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where gender obesity gaps on average exceed 10 percentage … points. This paper examines one of the explanations, namely the role of female empowerment on gender gaps in obesity. We …

The 30th anniversary of CEDAW renewed debate on proposed mechanisms to increase women's presence in the public sphere … East and North Africa as countries attempt to impress donors and investors with “good marks” on their gender report cards …. Inglehart and Norris claim gender discrimination is an important component of substantive democratization, echoing the …

gender attitudes in Tunisia. Tunisia is among the most advanced countries in the Arab region in terms of women rights and … legal reforms that shall strengthen the position of women. Yet, there still exists a tension between the law and what is … in interviewer characteristics with respect to gender and perceived religiosity. The video has no average impact, which …

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has made impressive strides in reducing gender gaps in human development …. The ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education is 0.96, women in the region are more likely than men to …), and fertility rates have decreased in the past decade. Although gender gaps in school completion rates still exist in some …

Measuring gender inequality and women's empowerment is essential to understand the determinants of gender gaps … perspective to the current debate on measuring gender inequality in human development. As a starting point, we develop a simple … macroeconomic model of the interdependence between human development and gender inequality. We then introduce a biometric indicator …