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Why women's vote will make the difference in Us presidential election

Euro zone leadership is on course to installing an all-male European Central Bank Executive Board that will be in place till 2018. The wider Governing Council would consist of 23 men and zero women. This open letter, signed by distinguished macroeconomists from across the spectrum, urges the Eurogroup to reconsider their position and nominate one of the many qualified female candidates.

Is your own country completely different from Greece, or isn't it?

A simple self-administered Economic Greekness Test puts your mind at rest

Research has long demonstrated a gender gap in who writes and produces the news, but less is still known about how it has materialized online.

The gate-keeping of research funding in Europe involves, to a large extent, middle-aged male academics. Women are under-represented among gate-keepers and hence among those having leading positions in science and science policy

Economic Crisis, Feminist Economics and the Solidarity Economy

Italy has a brand new law that garantees gender balance on boards, a law that is necessary but it's not enough. Interview with Morten Huse, scholar of corporate governance that studied the impact of women on business performance.

In Italy the press is in the hands of men. This journalism is mutilated, it’s a half-way journalism

For the International women's day, women bloggers invade the net asking their male colleagues to break men's silence on violence against women in all its forms. It's not a women's problem, it involves all.

In the canadian province of Québec the introduction of a non transferable right to paternity leave has translated into a steady increase in participation of fathers and in a boost of the fertility rate

Neoliberalism, Confucianism and the gender dimension in China’s post-command economy period

In Norway 97% of fathers take the leave. The expectations are high, but is it a magic remedy for gender equality?