Gender Equality in Conditional Cash Transfer Designs

Nora Nagels is an associate professor of political science at the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She earned her PhD in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute, Geneva in 2013. She pursued postdoctoral training at the Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance in the Political Science department at the Université de Montréal. She co-founded l’Équipe de recherche sur l’inclusion et la gouvernance en Amérique latine (ERIGAL). Her research focuses on gender, the World Bank, citizenship and social policies in Latin America. She has recently published on comparative politics, conditional cash transfers, development, citizenship and gender in leading journals such as the International Feminist Journal of Politics; Social Politics; Social Policy & Administration, Social Policy & Society, Politica and Sociedad and Revue internationale de politique comparée.

• Chapter One – Introduction.- Chapter Two – Mechanisms and Configuration. Understanding the travels of a policy instrument.- Chapter Three – Cooking from a new recipe: Progresa and Bolsa Família with gender equality goals.- Chapter Four – Standardization of CCTs without gender equality.- Chapter Five – Juntos and the Bonos: translation with innovations rooted in exclusionary institutional legacies.- Chapter Six – Lessons for gender equality and social policies.