, 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 …

century, women’s voices continue to be muted and domestic violence continues to be invisible, to some extent, in the eyes of … the law. This paper uses the 1881 autobiography of Eliza Davies and the voices of contemporary women who speak out about …

paper illustrates how the language used to describe violence against women may act to minimise these acts and the dominant … argue that there is an inherent dilemma in engaging with legal constructs which continue to negate women’s understandings of …

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 describes the extra pressure women from a non English speaking background may face when they find themselves … imprisoned. These women experience difficulties with the prison culture which may cause shock and distress; language difficulties … to increase the isolation and stresses for NESB women incarcerated in Victorian prisons …

women in Guatemala, a country with one of the highest rates of femicide, or gender-motivated killings of women, in the world …