On a global scale, India ranks very poorly in terms of gender equality. This overall indicator
masks important heterogeneities across the separate measures of female empowerment …

Are women disadvantaged whilst accessing justice? I chart, for the first time, the full
trajectory of accessing justice in India using an original dataset of roughly half a million …

Despite striking gender differences in men's and women's engagement in past prevention
programmes to stop violence against women (VAW), few empirical studies have determined …

We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an innovative police
patrol program on sexual harassment in public spaces in Hyderabad, India. In collaboration …

This paper assesses the effect of the creation of specialised intimate partner violence (IPV)
courts on the reporting of IPV, and the incidence of IPV homicides in Spain. We find that the …

Several nations have enacted gender reforms in policing, many of which are premised on
the notion that women favor female officers, especially in the context of tackling violence …

Responding to persistent gender inequity, organizations have adopted diversity initiatives to
promote women's representation in traditionally male-dominated occupations. Although …

Street‐level bureaucrats rely on credibility judgments when navigating interactions with
citizen‐clients who are mostly strangers. These credibility judgments are inherently …

One in three women has survived physical or sexual violence in her lifetime. In a wave of
reforms designed in part to increase women's access to justice for such crimes, governments …

The article explores the lived experiences of investigative police officers in managing rape
and serious sexual offences (RASSO) in Nigeria, a developing country with a conservative …