It may be useful to you: "Women, Business and the Law 2014. Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality", http://wbl.worldbank.org/~/media/FPDKM/WBL/Documents/Reports/2014/Women-Business-and-the-Law-2014-Key-Findings.pdf.

and this: http://eige.europa.eu/content/gender-equality-index.

and maybe this: Missing Women: The G20, Gender Equality and Global Economic Governance, http://www.boell.org/downloads/Heintz_Missing_Women.pdf

Dear Pr Gartaula,

As I have received a PhD. in gender studies, I have developed further research in gender and entrepreneurship.

Recently, I have been very interested in gender issues concerning Mid-Eastern women in the context of entrepreneurship and management. Therefore, I would recommend you two interesting papers:

-Jamali, D. (2009), Constraints and opportunities facing women entrepreneurs in developing countries: A relational perspective, Gender in Management: An International Journal, 24 (4): 232-251

-Syed, J & Özbilgin, M. (2009), A relational framework for international transfer of diversity management practices, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 20 (12): 2435-2453.

These two papers elaborate a very interesting cultural, strategic, and political framework that reveals the interactions between women and business world in a given context. Similarly, from a psychosocial point of view, in 2009, I have tried to analyse the interactions between women business owners and their employees and stakeholders in order to see how they elaborate their strategic and managerial decisions. However, I have overlooked the cultural and political context. If I would develop a new research on gender in the context of strategic choices, I would use Jamali's framework. At the same time, I have the impression that Jamali's framework should be more critical...here are the references of my paper:

Redien-Collot, R. (2009), «Female Entrepreneurs’Authority: Is the Creative Aspect of Authority a Masculine Fiction in Managerial and Entrepreneurial Paradigms? » , Journal of Enterprising Culture, 17 (4): 419-441. http://www.worldscinet.com/jec/17/1704/S0218495809000448.html

I can send you this paper if you are interested.

Best Regards

Renaud

Thanks very much Marta and Renaud for your recommendations. I will definitely read through them. Hom

There are some recent studies from Norway (in Norwegian) concerning the wishes and needs of transpeople.

Amnesty International has taken a closer look at living conditions for trans*people in several European countries.

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