Contributor(s): Christine Chinkin | Professor Christine Chinkin explores how violence against women is a topic relevant to law, media, politics and economics. Violence specifically against women needs to be given more prominence and it needs to be set on the agenda by the government, argues...

Contributor(s): Saphieh Ashtiany | Saphieh Ashtiany discusses the various legal measures that can be taken to level out gender inequality and to help women assert their rights. She highlights the importance of looking at what kind of rights are necessary and which laws work. She notes how cuts to...

Contributor(s): Stephanie Seguino | Professor Stephanie Seguino reflects on how single parent households and certain racial groups were disadvantaged before the economic crisis and they experience the greatest burden of austerity after the crisis. She argues this will lead to long-term problems...