HIGHLIGHTS

Article highlights briefly convey key findings, main points, and policy implications.

Recent articles:

Beyond the Gender Binary: Transgender Labor Force Status in the United States 2014–17 – Travis Campbell, Lee Badgett, Everest Dalton-Quartz & Chandler Campbell
  • Masculinity associates with a labor market premium.

  • Feminine trans men and women have labor market outcomes similar to feminine ciswomen.

  • Masculine trans men and women have labor market outcomes similar to masculine cismen.

  • Gender incongruence associates with labor market penalties.

 
  • In Bangladesh, women are disproportionally exposed to the risk of HIV/AIDS.

  • Multidimensional HIV/AIDS knowledge deprivation is concentrated among disadvantaged women.

  • Key prevention strategies are those focused on knowledge deprivation.

  • Policies targeting women’s education and employment will reduce the risk of infection.

  • Women’s empowerment and agency improve HIV/AIDS knowledge deprivation.

 
  • In Israel, gender plays a marginal role in women economists’ policymaking.

  • Spaces for training and learning in economics remain fundamentally gender biased.

  • Neutrality perception limits critical feminist thinking on economic policy.

  • Including feminist perspectives in economic education is vital.

 
  • A feminist approach to dispossession reveals its less visible and its gendered dimensions.

  • Conflict-related dispossession consists of more than mass land expulsion during war.

  • In post-war, dispossession connects to both state and capitalist logics of accumulation.

  • Dispossession can have different modes: it is an embodied process, occurs through social reproduction, and can happen covertly.

  • A feminist re-conceptualization contributes to analyses of violence against women in war and post-war.

 
  • In Indonesia, higher women’s bargaining power enhances child nutritional long-term outcomes.

  • Child nutrition improves when women make decisions jointly with other family members.

  • Boys appear to be the main beneficiaries of mothers’ higher bargaining power.

  • Policies to increase women’s agency need to consider family support and social norms.

 
  • In Ghana, seasonal time poverty is positively associated with income and asset aspirations.

  • Seasonal time poverty reduces social status aspiration.

  • The effect of seasonal time poverty on aspiration is higher among women and adults.

  • Programs that promote rural household income must be targeted, pursued, and sustained to improve aspirations.

 
  • Patriarchal norms limit disadvantaged women’s entrepreneurial opportunities in India.

  • Lijjat, a women’s cooperative, provides insight into the role of feminist ideologies in empowering women.

  • Pragmatist feminist ideologies encourage women to challenge traditional norms through entrepreneurship.

  • These ideologies shape both individual motivations and collective organizational practices at Lijjat.

  • Supporting women’s cooperatives can improve women’s economic participation and empowerment.

  • Patriarchal norms limit disadvantaged women’s entrepreneurial opportunities in India.

  • Lijjat, a women’s cooperative, provides insight into the role of feminist ideologies in empowering women.

  • Pragmatist feminist ideologies encourage women to challenge traditional norms through entrepreneurship.

  • These ideologies shape both individual motivations and collective organizational practices at Lijjat.

  • Supporting women’s cooperatives can improve women’s economic participation and empowerment.

 

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