The Economics of Power and Poverty in the Home begins by exploring what can be measured about the sharing of resources and the distribution of well-being within households, with particular attention to gender disparities and child poverty. Taking stock of a wide range of economic and social science research, it offers a critical assessment of available microeconomic models and measurement tools, examining what they can illuminate about intra-household dynamics. Olivier Bargain then investigates the key demographic, economic, and social factors that shape inequalities within households, including women's participation in the labour market and their control over income and assets, as well as broader contextual influences such as economic crises, social movements, media and role models, and the enduring impact of formal and informal norms. Some of these factors are also relevant as potential markers for policy intervention and the targeting of social programs, especially when they help to identify instances of acute inequities within families. Turning explicitly to redistributive policies, the volume analyses how cash transfers, in-kind benefits, and taxation can shift power dynamics within households and affect the poverty status of women and children.Throughout, the book critically engages with recent developments in academic and policy debates, and outlines directions for future research. It concludes by addressing the normative challenges households present for the design of equitable public policies, such as the complexities of redistributing resources both between and within households.
The WI is the UK's largest women's organisation, and has been campaigning to protect the environment since the 1920s. Grace Parker explored its archives at The Women's Library, to find out more.
Stacey Copeland's Lavender Sounds explores lesbian radio history and its evolution into queer feminist podcasting today, exploring the politics, aesthetics, and cultural activism embedded in queer feminist soundwork. Through deeply personal and archival explorations, Stacey Copeland traces the emergence of queer feminist soundwork—a unique blend of community-led storytelling, political resistance, and creative expression rooted in feminist and LGBTQ+ activism. At the heart of the book lies a powerful idea: sound is not just heard but felt, connecting generations through shared voices and struggles. In conversation with award-winning and cutting-edge queer and feminist podcast producers from across Canada and the U.S., Lavender Sounds invites us to turn a feminist-embodied ear to the past to uncover the ways gender, race, and sexual orientations are embedded in our everyday media listening practices. From pioneering Canadian radio shows like Vancouver's The Lesbian Show and Montreal's Dykes on Mykes to today's queer chumcasts and audio documentary, Lavender Sounds is a journey through auditory landscapes where joy, protest, intimacy, and identity intersect. This book opens a vibrant conversation about how radio and podcasting are vital tools for marginalized communities to connect, create, and claim space in the media world.
Advances in digital technologies have improved communication and the sharing of information have become an important component of security and peacebuilding efforts. At the same time, they have enabled new forms of gender-based violence and disinformation that disproportionately affect women in...
The GreeNE Feminist Lab (GFL), 2025 is a programme run by Zubaan in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, New Delhi, India. This residential lab hoped to encourage a cohort of young people to engage on issues of development, ecology and climate through a feminist lens involving cross-learning exchanges, knowledge production, interaction with stakeholders and building of community archives.
Through these conversations, we hope to create a documentation practice of archiving lived realities and ongoing feminist concerns and responses. In this production, the fellows reflect on the responses to ecological crises, as a development agenda but also taking into account community measures.
This evaluation report presents the experiences, achievements, lessons, and challenges of the Kilimanjaro Initiative, a rural women’s land rights campaign in Africa. The campaign was officially launched in 2016 with the adoption of the Charter of Demands and Aspirations of African Women on Land Rights. Over the past ten years, rural women organized through the […]
Jun 25, 2026 » A new report from the Centre for Young Lives thinktank published today (Thursday June 25th) warns that the fast-growing online trend known as “looksmaxxing” is driving some boys and young men towards dangerous body image pressures, extreme behaviours, and misogynistic worldviews.
By examining experiences of reproductive coercion, mistreatment during childbirth and restricted access to services, this report highlights a broader pattern of control over women’s bodies that has not been sufficiently recognized or
This report summarizes key takeaways from an expert group meeting to inform the tenth edition of “Progress of the world’s women”. Participants examined gendered climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation pathways, and climate finance, offering guidance on data, studies, and policy options. It is a practical report for gender-equality advocates.
One of the largest surviving collections of suffrage posters from the early twentieth century are housed in Cambridge University Library’s famous tower. This month, a selection will go on display for the centenary of the Representation of the People Act that finally gave some women the vote.
A small set of photographs in our collection shows women from Manipur at work on an airfield in the Imphal Valley in North Eastern India during the Second World War. What was their experience of living on the ‘home front’ at the heart of one of the most brutal battles of the conflict?
This discussion paper explores how Scotland can contribute to addressing global challenges. It focuses on the actions the Scottish Government can take to continuously evolve its humanitarian response by further embedding a feminist, decolonial and locally-led approach during a global humanitarian funding crisis.
A voluntary commitment to improve outcomes for women across the UK research system, with actions for research funders and research performing organisations.
Re:State were delighted to host a panel exploring the key challenges preventing better outcomes in women’s health, as well as the intersection between women’s health and economic outcomes. With reducing economic inactivity and shifting to a more preventive, community-based health system at the heart of the Government’s priorities, the importance of women’s health in these […]
Being visible in higher education doesn’t always mean you are being heard. Soheon Kim and Swati Garg think through the issues Being visible in higher education doesn’t always mean you are being heard. Soheon Kim and Swati Garg think through the issues
In Their Own Words: Voices of Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Service-Providers In this unique anthology, which spans a dozen countries and includes more than 150 testimonies from conflicts ranging from 1992 to the present, survivors and service-providers speak in their own words.
This handbook aims to serve as an introductory practical guide for maritime organizations that intend to apply gender mainstreaming. It guides them in critically reviewing their policies and practices from a gender and diversity lens. Some organizations may view their maritime operations as having nothing to do with gender and, therefore, not requiring any gender considerations. Such mindsets are good signs that an organization would benefit from gender mainstreaming. Others may view the fact that their organizations have women working in every unit as evidence of gender equality and see no need for further action. Gender mainstreaming can help identify gaps and areas for further improvement in organizations, which contributes to making maritime professions attractive and sustainable. This handbook uses cases and examples of maritime organizations and operations and translates the universal language of gender mainstreaming into maritime-focused and maritime-relevant resources which will be beneficial for all maritime stakeholders.
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