This paper defines a category of ‘emancipation rights', encompassing both women's human rights and children's human … rights. The paper argues that some of the emancipatory human rights challenges are the same for women and children: these …

Employing economic and social globalization indicators, we empirically analyze whether globalization affects women … social globalization positively affects both women's economic and social rights, while the impact of economic globalization …" problems, prevailing in developing countries. However, (marginalized) foreign women, proxied with inflows of human trafficking …

This paper empirically investigates whether globalization can improve women's rights. Using panel data from 150 … countries over the 1981-2008 period, I find that social globalization positively affects women's economic and social rights …. When controlling for social globalization however, economic globalization does not have any effect on women's rights …

of women living in poverty, and analyses the relevance of international human rights law to decisions on the necessary …

In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for … women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of … women in the labour market though and this book proposes a critical overview of the most recent historical research on women …