Michela Carlana is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She is affiliated with the Center for…
Desmond Ang is an applied economist and associate professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His research examines the causes…
Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define.…
Jane Mansbridge, Rohini Pande, Robert Livingston, and Hannah Riley Bowles speak about their research on gender to celebrate 20 years of…
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have…
Harvard Kennedy School students discuss the unique challenges—and paths to success—for women in public service.
The American woman suffrage movement remade the U.S. Constitution and effected the broadest expansion of voting eligibility in the nation's…
The past, present, and future of the Equal Rights Amendment.
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…