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Latvia is facing growing divisions over a political push to withdraw from the main international treaty to combat violence against women, as outlined in a new policy brief by Pamela Campa (SITE) and Kata Fredheim (SSE Riga). The brief explains how a debate over the word “gender” escalated into mass protests, political fractures, and concerns about Latvia’s international standing. Meanwhile, data show that violence against women in Latvia is a serious concern and societal support for legislation to combat it is high.

Three years after its launch, the Collective Visibility initiative has grown from a social media campaign into a global platform with more than 800 women speakers in 70 countries. A new study shows how shared purpose, digital amplification and an entrepreneurial mindset can transform equality in sport from talk into action.

Some governments are resistant to adopting gender quota laws that would force parties to promote more women on the ballot – but competition can nudge parties there. This new policy brief analysis, by Pamela Campa (SITE) and Perihan Saygin (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), examines Turkey to show how one party’s push for gender equality pressured a rival to add more female candidates.

Anna Breman, who holds a PhD in Economics from SSE, becomes the first ever female Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank.

Professor Laurence Romani highlighted three common misconceptions about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, in a Dagens Industri (DI) special insert on the topic.

Around 120,000 students are finishing compulsory school in Sweden this month—many of them with limited information about future career and educational options. Preliminary findings from an ongoing study at the Stockholm School of Economics show that adolescents tend to overestimate the salaries of electricians and real estate agents, while underestimating earnings by hairdressers and programmers. The researchers are now looking for more career professionals and schools to get involved in the study.

SSE graduates Marie Ehrling and Gunilla Arhén have been conferred knighthoods by H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Italian firms led by female CEOs have more women on average in the top management team than those led by men, according to a new study from the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. The association weakens if the CEO lacks sufficient decision-making power or if she works for a family-owned company.

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), together with the American University of Armenia (AUA), is pleased to announce a two-day Paper Development Workshop on June 3-4 as part of the program “Closing Gender Gaps Through Economics Research”, supported by the Swedish Institute Eastern Partnership Cooperation Project.

Sophia Nabil (b. 2002) is being awarded this year's Anders Wall Scholarship in collaboration with SSE Business Lab. The scholarship amount is 200,000 SEK.