If you’ve watched many period dramas, you’ve probably seen a mantua. It was worn over a pair of stays (corset) and an often contrasting petticoat. The draping fabric created a front-opening gown.
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A new research project is helping Nigerien women access valuable, accurate information from which they are too often cut off.
An 85-95% effective marginal tax rate means the second earner in a low-income family can increase from two days’ work a week to three, four or five days and be better off by only about $4,000 a year.
Unless we’re addressing inequalities everywhere, we will achieve equality nowhere.
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Journalism, Radio and Communication, University of Sheffield
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Director, Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University
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Visiting Professor of Tax Law, New York University, and Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University