The paper is based on research into the use of Domestic Violence Protection Orders by Indigenous women in Queensland …, and their effectiveness as a response to family violence particularly in rural and remote areas. The paper draws on a … of domestic and family violence orders …

In recent decades, women's participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most countries and is … be occurring in the criminal world, though many more men than women still engage in criminal activity. Technological … progress and social norms have freed women from the home, increasing their participation in both the labor market and the crime …

and piecemeal way in which suffrage was eventually won by women in European countries. Furthermore, it identifies the main … factors accounting for women's earlier or later achievement of suffrage in different European nations and, exploring the … connection between women's access to voting rights and to civil and social rights, it retells a story of women's citizenship …

terrorism, where (1) Islamist terrorists use violence to curb women's rights because they consider modern notions of gender …We investigate the effect of Islamist terrorist activity on women's economic, political and legal position in society … groups is associated with lower levels of women's empowerment and rights. Various instrumental-variable approaches yield the …

provide new evidence on how women suffrage has affected government spending. Using data from the last country in Europe to … adopt suffrage, Switzerland, we demonstrate two main results. First, women suffrage has changed the scope of government much … more than its size. Women are more likely to support expenditures for public goods like environment and public transport …

Easteal provides a brief profile of the sociodemographic and sentence background of women in prison. She highlights the … explains how the gendered needs of women inmates are generally not met within the institution …

, empirical evidence indicates consistent overrepresentation of women, including many single mothers, among payday loan borrowers …. This takes a toll not only on these women and their families, but also on society as a whole. Indeed, context matters in … payday lending debates. It is thus time to think creatively and consider contextualized programs that aim to increase women …