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This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a glob

The concept of Women Empowerment reached momentum in the second half of the 1990s. The Gender Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) put f

Women are gaining ground as presidents of Latin America. Women leaders in presidential systems (particularly women directly elected by the public) were generall

The report quantifies the size of the gender gap in 58 countries, including all 30 OECD countries and 28 other emerging markets, measuring the extent to which w

Women perform 66% of the world's work, produce 50% of the food, but earn 10% of the income and own 1% of the property. To shed light on why this grim statistic