Nowadays, a very little attention has been dedicated to gender studies in science and technology. In particular, very … few researches deal with women vertical, but also orizontal, segregation in public research institutions. The main purpose … Research Institute inside the National Research Council of Italy. This study shows tree main results: 1) gender identity; 2 …

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on … the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We …

year period the law averted the genital mutilation/cutting of approximately 237,591 women and girls. We qualify our findings …

medicine. A well documented opt-out revolution is underway, in which women professionals are leaving the workplace in droves … but opt out of family. These men and women forego parenting and stable, long-term relationships in surprisingly high … women. Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, this Chapter shows that among professionals, long-term adult …

Does women’s participation in paid work lead to their better well-being? This analysis, through a primary survey … some benefits to women but beyond a point the benefits are context-specific – whether women enter the labour force out of … empowering women by providing them with choices and freedom, nor do they convey that paid work is demeaning and devoid of any …

Researchers have speculated that the economic and social consequences of COVID-19 will harm women's health. This paper … related to abortion fell in number, while pregnancy calls remained stable. The abortion effect is most pronounced for women …

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed effects strategy … approach and a border-analysis. Our findings indicate that a one standard deviation increase in sexual crimes per 1000 women …

Birth control is fundamental for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Historically, oral contraceptives, most … notably the pill, transferred from men to women the control on contraception, shifting out the frontier of women’s available … uncoordinated introduction of the contraceptive pill on-demand to young, adult, unmarried women in 14 European countries between the …

One of every nine women in the United States (11.8 percent in 2013) is represented by a union at her place of work. The … annual number of hours of paid work performed by women has increased dramatically over the last four decades. In 1979, the …, women's share of unpaid care work and housework has remained high. Various time-use studies conclude that women continue to …

We investigate whether term limits can help historically underrepresented groups, such as women, gain faster access to … positions of political power. We exploit evidence from Italian local elections where, in a context of rapidly increasing women … higher if term limits had not been extended. The impact is stronger in municipalities with a larger presence of women at …