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CSW Policy Brief Prize!
Women in the Informal Economy: Global Challenges, Local Solutions

CSW Policy Briefs feature outstanding applied feminist scholarship by graduate students at UCLA. Each brief presents research in support of a policy change that would substantially improve the health and well being of women and their families.

This year, we are partnering with Chris Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, to invite submissions on the topic of “Women in the Informal Economy: Global Challenges, Local Solutions.” Up to three students will be selected to work with CSW staff and researchers on the editing and publication of a policy brief for distribution to community partners, nonprofit and research organizations, and public officials. Selected students will receive a $500 stipend and receive recognition at the CSW Awards luncheon in 2015. We may also organize an event where the students can present their work.

Students are invited to submit briefs with policy recommendations on topics related to women in the informal economy, including immigration, female entrepreneurship, health (including mental health) and health care issues, transportation, domestic labor, street vending, public safety, or housing.  Possible topics include global-level patterns and changes in the informal economy and their causes, how informal economic activities reinforce or challenge gender hierarchies, connections between informal economy and remittances and/or transnationalism, and lessons from past government efforts to regulate the informal economy and/or support entrepreneurship.

Submissions may be local, national, or international in scope.

Criteria: Currently enrolled UCLA graduate student

Length: Approximately 750 words, excluding bibliography/sources, graphs, tables, and images.

Questions: Brenda Johnson-Grau, Managing Editor, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Click here<http://www.csw.ucla.edu/current-projects/for-grad-students/awards-grants-and-fellowships/policy-briefs> <http://www.csw.ucla.edu/current-projects/for-grad-students/awards-grants-and-fellowships/policy-briefs> for more information & the application form.

Deadline for Submissions: Monday, December 22, 2014 <<<< extended!
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