Background: Gender-based violence is a worldwide public health problem that is
increasingly occurring at younger ages. This investigation aims to analyze effective …

The status of women in academia, including comparative education, has grown rapidly. We
build on the extensive literature on women's work in the academy by investigating the …

The global neoliberal era has sparked a burgeoning literature. Most accounts emphasize
the political economy of the period, focusing on global markets and privatization. By contrast …

This study provides a first descriptive mapping of support for women's equal rights in 34
African countries and assesses diverse theoretical explanations for variability in this support …

Gender equality constitutes a central aspect of sustainable development. Education is
commonly viewed as crucial for achieving both sustainable development and gender …

The triumphant diffusion of the nation state as blueprint or model has impacted the world,
generating the “age of nation-states”(Weitz, 2019). This is also the “world educational …

Current theories of global cultural diffusion outline abstract mechanisms through which
cultural scripts spread across the world. To reveal how scripts reach individuals, one must …

Sociologists have long studied the educational incorporation of immigrants and refugees,
but most scholarship focuses on questions of access, achievement, attainment, and …

In India, consistent marginalization of women suggests that broader societal transformation
is needed to transcend gender stereotypes and foster gender equality. Effective school …

Partial enactment of women's rights is at the crux of this analysis, which identifies factors
associated with the adoption of some global women's rights scripts but not others. Women …