Archaeology: Origin of gender inequalities

Teaching with Intent: The Archaeology of Gender

Abstracto: Este ensayo discute la relacion de instruir sobre la expresion politic& especialmente el papel de la critica feminista en el desarrollo de la arqueologiao: Este ensayo discute la relacion de instruir sobre la expresion politic& especialmente el papel de la critica feminista en el desarrollo de la arqueologia y el lugar de esta critica en la clase. R6sum6:Ce papier aborde la relation ...

Gender Inequalities in Education

The terrain of gender inequalities in education has seen much change in recent decades. This article reviews the empirical research and theoretical perspectives on gender inequalities in educational performance and attainment from early childhood to young adulthood. Much of the literature on children and adolescents attends to performance differences between girls and boys. Of course, achieveme...

Gender Inequalities in Health

Education, Empowerment and Gender Inequalities

This paper considers a seeming disconnect between the consensus in policy circles that reducing gender inequalities is to be prioritized in strategies for reducing inequality and poverty, and a view in mainstream economics (and in some policy circles) that gender inequalities are overemphasized. This latter view is not stated openly, it being politically incorrect to do so, but is nevertheless ...

Gender Inequalities in Campaign Finance

Previous research suggests that female candidates do not face fundraising barriers; however, female politicians consistently report that fundraising is more difficult for them than their male colleagues. Using a regression discontinuity design to hold district characteristics constant, we study whether there is a gender gap in campaign fundraising for state legislators from 1990 to 2010. We fin...