Crumbling American Dreams
My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered decent opportunity for the children of bankers and factory worke
Research
Female Combatants and the Perpetration of Violence: Wartime Rape in the Sierra Leone Civil War
Much of the current scholarship on wartime violence, including studies of the combatants themselves, assumes that women are victims and men are perpetrators.
The Effects of Girl-Friendly Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
We evaluate a 'girl-friendly' primary school program in Burkina Faso using a regression discontinuity design.
Enforcing Girls' Access to Secondary Education: A Human Rights Imperative
"If I like a boy I cannot tell anybody about my choice because I am a girl. I like making friends with boys but being a girl I cannot do that.
Psychological Perspectives on Gender in Negotiation
Women In Charge
A policy experiment in India suggests that placing female leaders in positions of power can dramatically change public attitudes.
The Urban Jobs Crisis
In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama urged that young people be given the opportunity to obtain the skills training and education that will enable them to find stab
Giving Margaret Thatcher The Feminist Cred She Deserves — And Would Have Hated
Thirty years ago, I was a young woman living and working in London.
Low-Income High-Achieving Students Miss Out on Attending Selective Colleges
The vast majority of low-income, high-achieving students in the U.S.
Muslim Support for Secular Democracy
Book abstract: Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices From Within provides an expansive understanding of secularism in the Muslim World by exploring different trajectories and varieties of secularism, from
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